Hi.
Anybody please help. I need to find out if Solaris 10 will take care of finding this external Hard Drive.
I am using USB to connect IBM xSeries 335 Intel Xeon?Processor to Maxtor OneTouch II 300GB USB 2.0 connection and Installing Solaris 10.
I need the Information ASAP.
It should work. Solaris 10 supports USB 1.x and USB 2.0 and generic
USB mass storage devices.
Note that you cannot use an USB (or Firewire) mass storage device as
a target device for a Solaris OS installation. That is, you cannot boot Solaris
from an USB / Firewire device - you cannot have the root filesystem on such
a device.
But you can use USB / Firewire mass storage device as a mountable
filesystem for additional filesystem space.
Hi,
Thank you for information. I am currently installing Solaris 10 on IBM xSeries 335 Intel Xeon?Processor. It did not recognize the Maxtor OneTouch II 300GB External Drive.
Where do I see this drive? How to Format & Mount? What to do to Mount it Everytime it reboots.
You should see the drive listed in "iostat -En" output.
"vold" should mount it automatically for you, if the drive contains a Solaris
supported filesystem. AFAIR, the Maxtors come preformatted with a PCFS
filesystem (DOS FAT32 filesystem). "vold" mount the device under
/rmdisk/....
See also the Solaris USB FAQ:
<a href="http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/USB-Faq.html" target="_blank">http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/USB-Faq.html</a>
