Hi,

I am using solaris 10 Sparc, I inserted My USB2.0 160 GB external disk to
the USB controller on Sun Blade 100, I found iostat -En can see the disk but format can not see the disk. cfgadm -alv shos the disk has connected and configured. I formated the external storage as NTFS type under windows. I know that mount ntfs filesystem under sparc is difficult and
I wonder whether there is a way to do it because I just found how to do that on solaris10 X86. If can not, This is only way to re-format the external storage as FAT/FAT32/FAT16, is it right?

#devfsadm -cV
#iostat -En

# iostat -En
c0t2d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Model: ST380011A Revision: 8.01 Serial No: 5JVF1XDP
Size: 80.03GB <80026361856 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0
c0t0d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Model: ST380011A Revision: 3.06 Serial No: 3JV5BYL6
Size: 80.03GB <80026361856 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0
c1t0d0 Soft Errors: 7 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
Vendor: MELCO IN Product: USB2-IDE Bridge Revision: 0100 Serial No:
Size: 160.04GB <160039272960 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 7 Predictive Failure Analysis:

*** ===> can not see c1t0d0 disk.
#format
Searching for disks...done


AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0 <DEFAULT cyl 38307 alt 2 hd 16 sec 255> SB100-Vo
/pci@1f,0/ide@d/dad@0,0
1. c0t2d0 <DEFAULT cyl 38307 alt 2 hd 16 sec 255> SB100-Vo
/pci@1f,0/ide@d/dad@2,0
Specify disk (enter its number): ^C

According to the documentation, "rmformat" should be used for removable media like USB disks, not "format".

Hi there:

Your usb drive (if recognized) will show mounted as /rmdisk/rmdisk0. You will not see it with the format command but you should see it mounted with df -h or mount.

As "Happy J" (that is what I call jlliagre) said, format will not show it.
Sometimes though, different brands don't get mounted automatically and I have had to type svcadm restart volfs first.

Good luck,

J.

Hi, javier

As you said, it will mount /rmdisk/rmdisk0 automatically if volfs service is online. Because I want to add the USb external to my vxvm disk list. But vxdisk list can not locate the disk. Any idea?