Mounting USB drive on Solaris 8

Mark_667 · 05-29-2012, 06:21 AM

I'm trying to transfer a file from a pen drive to an old SPARC Solaris 8 machine but am having some trouble mounting it.

Code:

# ls /dev/dsk
c0t0d0s0  c0t0d0s3  c0t0d0s6  c0t2d0s1  c0t2d0s4  c0t2d0s7  c1t0d0s2  c1t0d0s5
c0t0d0s1  c0t0d0s4  c0t0d0s7  c0t2d0s2  c0t2d0s5  c1t0d0s0  c1t0d0s3  c1t0d0s6
c0t0d0s2  c0t0d0s5  c0t2d0s0  c0t2d0s3  c0t2d0s6  c1t0d0s1  c1t0d0s4  c1t0d0s7
#
# iostat -En
c0t0d0 <snip>
c1t0d0          Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: SanDisk Product: Cruzer Edge Revision: 1.20 Serial No:  Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
#
# eject -n
        fd -> /dev/rdiskette
        fd0 -> /dev/rdiskette
        fd1 -> /dev/rdiskette1
        diskette -> /dev/rdiskette
        diskette0 -> /dev/rdiskette0
        diskette1 -> /dev/rdiskette1
        rdiskette -> /dev/rdiskette
        rdiskette0 -> /dev/rdiskette0
        rdiskette1 -> /dev/rdiskette1
        floppy -> /dev/rdiskette
        floppy0 -> /dev/rdiskette0
        floppy1 -> /dev/rdiskette1
        cd -> cdrom0
        cd0 -> cdrom0
        cd1 -> cdrom1
# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0 /mnt/USB
mount: No such file or directory
#

The directory /mnt/USB definitely exists, what more do I need to do to mount it?

jlliagre · 05-29-2012, 09:21 AM

There is no p0 on SPARC. Try:

Code:

mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1t0s2 /mnt/USB

or

Code:

mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1t0s2:c /mnt/USB

Mark_667 · 05-30-2012, 05:41 AM

Thought I'd check the filesystem of the drive, it's NTFS, changing pcfs to ntfs in the mount command unsurprisingly gave:

Code:

mount: operation not applicable to FSType ntfs

Anything else gives:

Code:

mount: No such file or directory

jlliagre · 05-30-2012, 06:58 AM

There is no NTFS support in Solaris 8 and no way to access non FAT partitions under SPARC.

sco1984 · 06-06-2012, 01:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark_667

I'm trying to transfer a file from a pen drive to an old SPARC Solaris 8 machine but am having some trouble mounting it.

The directory /mnt/USB definitely exists, what more do I need to do to mount it?

Easiest way is to copy the file on Windows machine and transfer it to your Solaris 8 machine via WinSCP.