USB Support in Solaris

Does Solaris provide an accessible USB stack upon which drivers can be created for support of custom USB devices?
If so, where can I find documentation on implementing USB drivers in Solaris?
Thanks,
Rich Moran

3rd party USB drivers are not yet supported. The details of the interface have not been sufficiently worked out to make a general purpose interface available. It could be possible to get access to the interfaces as they stand by making a deal under NDA.

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drwxr-xr-x   2 root     nobody       512 Sep 30 2009 unnamed_rmdisk
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lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     nobody        16 Oct 1 2009 rmdisk0 -> ./unnamed_rmdik
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     nobody       512 Sep 30 2009 unnamed_rmdisk
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Filesystem             size   used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0      5.1G   4.0G   1.1G    78%    /
/devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
ctfs                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/contract
proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                   5.9G   984K   5.9G     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
objfs                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/object
sharefs                  0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/dfs/sharetab
/usr/lib/libc/libc_hwcap2.so.1
                       5.1G   4.0G   1.1G    78%    /lib/libc.so.1
fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
swap                   5.9G   148K   5.9G     1%    /tmp
swap                   5.9G    32K   5.9G     1%    /var/run
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7      129G   1.7G   126G     2%    /export/home
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/rmdisk
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drwxr-xr-x   2 root     nobody       512 Sep 30 2009 unnamed_rmdisk
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volume management starting.
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Vendor: TEAC     Product: DV-28E-V         Revision: 1.AC Serial No:
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 3 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
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Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c1t1d0           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: HITACHI Product: HUS1514SBSUN146G Revision: SA04 Serial No: 0921B2Z5NC
Size: 146.81GB <146810535936 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c4t0d0           Soft Errors: 21 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: WD       Product: My Book 1140     Revision: 1007 Serial No:
Size: 2000.37GB <2000365289472 bytes>
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?
Thanks in advance,
Jack
Edited by: 797805 on 6/06/2012 04:48

Hi 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:
# df -h
Filesystem             size   used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0      5.1G   4.0G   1.1G    78%    /
/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s7      129G   1.7G   126G     2%    /export/home
/vol/dev/dsk/c3t0d0/unnamed_rmdisk#1:c   3.7G   2.4G   1.3G    65%    /rmdisk/unnamed_rmdisk#1
/vol/dev/dsk/c2t0d0/unnamed_rmdisk:c    29G    96K    29G     1%    /rmdisk/unnamed_rmdiskIt also appears that the Device status of Not Ready from “iostat –En” below may not be correct either since both smaller drives are working fine:
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c4t0d0           Soft Errors: 23 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: WD       Product: My Book 1140     Revision: 1007 Serial No:
Size: 2000.37GB <2000365289472 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 23 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c2t0d0           Soft Errors: 7 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: Lexar    Product: USB Flash Drive Revision: 1100 Serial No:
Size: 31.41GB <31406948352 bytes>
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Illegal Request: 7 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
c3t0d0           Soft Errors: 60 Hard Errors: 8 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SanDisk Product: Cruzer Colors+   Revision: 8.02 Serial No:
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Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 8 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0In other word, the same question remains on whether it is possible to install a driver to overcome this issue and where to such driver?
It is necessary to install additional driver that came with the disk on Windows XP platform. However,
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