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

[845 byte] By [MakeITWork] at [2007-11-25 18:36:54]
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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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