Mounting a UFS formated USB drive on Solaris 10
[Hope this is the correct place to post this question]
I connected my 160 GB external usb hard drive to my V240 Solaris 9 server, ran newfs (ufs), mounted it, and wrote data to the drive with no problems.
I moved it to another sparc box with Solaris 10 (build 74-1) and tried mounting it, but no luck. The logical path for the usb drive shows up in "/dev/dsk" after running "devfsadm -C" and it shows up as configured when running "cfgadm -al," however, when I try to mount the drive it eventually times out without mounting. I get the same results when I try this on the x86 version of Solaris 10.
I know that the drive still works by taking it back to my Solaris 9 server and mounting the drive.
Is there something special or different with mounting usb drives with Solaris 10?
Thanks,
Phillip
It should be the same. For instance with a usb keychain (formated pcfs):
mkdir /usbdrive
mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c3t0d0p1 /usbdrive
On this particular laptop the second usb port was. c4t0d0p1 so:
mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c4t0d0p1 /usbdrive
The numbering might be different for each usb port and you have to specify the filesystem of the usb drive, but it should work.
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Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 21 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
#This is a working production system with 2 146.81GB mirrored hard disks. There is no disk error for either local or external 2TB Western Digital USB disks that works on Windows 7 or XP.
Any idea on what else to look for?
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Edited by: 797805 on 6/06/2012 04:48Hi All,
Looks like it was a driver / incompatibility / unsupported issue since 2 other much smaller USB keys (Lexar USB Flash Drive – 32GB, SanDisk Cruzer Colors – 4GB) were successfully mounted automatically by volfs service as follows:
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Perform regular backup of QNAP NAS Device (Linux) including the TimeMachine backup data to an external USB drive with encryption enabled and store this device safely off-site
In time of loss of both NAS and MacBook, Time Machine data can be recovered to another Mac without the need of the NAS using the following process:
Mount the external drive containing the backup of the NAS filesystem (ext4) which is encrypted onto a Linux host so it is readable - use the cryptsetup luksOpen options to access the encrypted filesystem then mount it.
Mount a n empty HFS+ formatted USB drive on the Linux host
Use Rsync to copy the sparsebundle from the external NAS drive backup disk to the root of the USB Drive
Insert the HFS+ formatted USB containing the sparesbundle into the Mac's USB port
Double click the sparsebundle to mount it onto the Mac as a Volume
Using Alt button and the TimeMachine icon, select use alternative backup disk and you should see the TM backup in the sparsebundle
Enter TimeMachine and you should be able to restore any/all files
Hope that helps someone else and thanks to LaPastenague for pointing me in the direction of some of the answers I needed.
Rgds
Gary
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