How to Mount external HD drive to Solaris X86Michelle wrote: On Mar 24, 5:11 pm, Michelle wrote: I went out and got those 1/2 Terabyteexternalharddrives from both Maxtor and Seagate. When I plugged in its USB cable onto my Solaris 10 x86 server, it tries to format theharddrive. But that's it. I can't mount either drive because the format doesn't even run. Is that anexternalharddrive system that is around 250 GB to 1 Terabyte that works with Solaris 10? Thanks. So I must have done something wrong. Can someone post the instructions on how to format an externalUSBharddrive on Solaris x86, and then, mounting it after the format is completed? Currently, whenever I plug in the USB cable, Solaris 10 wants to format the drive, and then, it just gets stuck there. Thanks.

Here's a brief summary of my notes from setting up 400 & 750 GB Seagate drives w/ ufs. Setting up pcfs is similar: 0) disable vold & reboot mv /etc/vold.conf /etc/vold.conf_disabled init 6 1) plug in the drive and get the drive designation rmformat -l 2) clear the old MS cruft

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/???? bs=2048 count=10 Note: I don't think this was really necessary. My notes don't say why I did it. Probably just habit. 2) get the number of sectors & create primary partition fdisk /dev/rdsk/???? 3) format the drive w/ newfs newfs -v [your choice of options] -s number_of_sectors /dev/rdsk/???? Thehardpart was figuring out I needed to give the "-s #_sectors" option. you'll get a message from newfs that the drive returns a size of zero, but a seek to the specified size succeeds so it is using the size you gave it. I've encountered the same message everytime I've formatted a USB drive. I assume it's a error in the USB mass storage driver failing to propagate the information properly. 4) mount -F ufs [your mount options] /dev/dsk/???? /mnt Have Fun! Reg- Hide quoted text - Show quoted text -

This is what I've done: # rmformat -l Looking for devices... 1. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0 Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0/sd@0,0 Connected Device: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A 1.75 Device Type: DVD Reader/Writer

2. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci1043,81ef@13,5/storage@2/disk@0,0 Connected Device: Maxtor OneTouch 0121 Device Type: Removable # fdisk /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 Total disk size is 60800 cylinders Cylinder size is 32130 (512 byte) blocks Cylinders Partition Status Type Start End Length % ========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== === 1 Active Solaris2 1 60799 60799 100 SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: 1. Create a partition 2. Specify the active partition 3. Delete a partition 4. Change between Solaris and Solaris2 Partition IDs 5. Exit (update disk configuration and exit) 6. Cancel (exit without updating disk configuration) Enter Selection: 6 # So now, what do I type in for the "newfs" command? I don't know what the number of sectors is. By the way, does the newfs command format the external hard disk? Then after the "newfs" command, can I do this command: # mount -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 /mnt