Mount FAT32 USB flash storage in Solaris 10

Hi guys, girls, and undecided.
I've just upgraded my Winblows XP laptop to dual-boot Solaris 10. I've been trying in vain to get a few things working, the most annoying of which is my USB flash storage disk.
I've tried 'pkill -HUP vold', to no avail
'iostat -En' shows my CDRW/DVD drive, but no USB drive.
Help would be muchly appreciated.

Congratulations on your choice of Os ;-)
To solve this problem you can try and create a directory called /rmdisk , then start vold running:
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
/etc/init.d/volmgt start
if you are lucky your USB flash will show up under /rmdisk/<name> after a few seconds.
If not you should be able to see the flash with cfgadm, which list the status of USB ports (among other things).
Solaris should automatically create a /dev/dsk/ and /dev/rdsk/ entries for your flash memory, if its not automatically mounted by vold, try and stop vold using
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
Then do a cd /dev/dsk and run an ls -lart, the USB devices should be among the last devices in that list, then mount it using:
mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/<device> /some/directory
the device should end with s2 or p2, some flash devices might also need :c, aka /dev/dsk/<device>:c, it depends how its configured.
See man mount_pcfs for more information...
Hope this helps a bit (:
//Magnus

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"DTV box may not have formatted properly" --> I'd suspect something like that too...
FAT32 is limited to file size of 4GB actually (minus one byte).
In my experience you can copy a larger file to a FAT32 volume, let's say a video file, but when the copying process is finished, you notice the size is 4GB, and when you play the video it ends abruptly at this point.
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Ok, Lots of different advice here, let's see if I can explain it all together, and clear up a few bits...
I'll try to explain why I'm saying what I am, it doesn't matter if you don't follow it all, commands are below.
You are on the right lines here, but a few things missing. Firstly, to mount the USB stick you are using the correct command, but the locations are a problem. The command is "mount -t type what/to/mount where/to/mount". You can find out more about the mount command with "mount --help" or "man mount"
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Congratulations on your choice of Os ;-)
To solve this problem you can try and create a directory called /rmdisk , then start vold running:
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
/etc/init.d/volmgt start
if you are lucky your USB flash will show up under /rmdisk/<name> after a few seconds.
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/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
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the device should end with s2 or p2, some flash devices might also need :c, aka /dev/dsk/<device>:c, it depends how its configured.
See man mount_pcfs for more information...
Hope this helps a bit (:
//Magnus

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dmesg
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First, I think this information might be better placed in the wiki somewhere.
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I am going to fade up with Solaris 10. Please somebody help me!!
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cN: the N'th disk controller installed in the system
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I always search google very hard and for months (off and on) I search for how to mount a USB Flash Drive. Nothing ever work so I give up than try again months latter. I don't want to give up anymore and that is why I join this forum.
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mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is mounted on /
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Thanks fsckd,
I needed a rapid reply because I been wasting too much time not getting anything done because I needed to get pass this flash-drive thing. I can now have a secure back-up in my pocket on USB to go. Arch-Linux does it better for what I seen while just dd'ing on disk.
...lsusb
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http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/linuxcommand.org … susb8.html
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http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/62478/re-mount-ejected-sd-card-without- reinserting
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(kernel) Kext com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader not found for unload request.
Failed to unload com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader - (libkern/kext) not found.
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