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I plugged in a USB 1.0 flash drive into a SunBlade 1000 (Solaris 8).
I'm now tring to figure out the mount command.
Can you help.
Here is what I've done so far:

I tried to follow the USB Flash Drive help at:
http://www.netsys.com/cgi-bin/display_article.cgi?1245
and http://www.netsys.com/cgi-bin/man2html?scsa2usb
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I ran:
csh% dmesg | grep scsa2usb
WHICH REPORTED (on machine 'eunice'):
Sep 23 15:24:06 eunice usba: [ID 855233 kern.info]
USB-device: storage@1, scsa2usb0 at bus address 5

Sep 23 15:24:06 eunice genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info]
scsa2usb0 is /pci@8,700000/usb@5,3/hub@3/storage@1

Sep 23 15:24:06 eunice scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info]
sd45 at scsa2usb0: target 0 lun 0

Sep 23 15:24:06 eunice genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info]
/pci@8,700000/usb@5,3/hub@3/storage@1 (scsa2usb0) online
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The next step is supposed to be the mount step, but, this failed:
csh% su root
csh# mkdir /flash
csh# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s2:c /flash
Which reported: mount: /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s2:c is not a DOS filesystem.
csh# df -kl
Does not report the existance of this flash drive.
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Probably I have the data incorrect in the mount line for the
controller:target:disk:slice:1 information in the mount command.

But, how do I find out that data for the mount command?
If it's in the dmesg output ... I don't understand that well enough to
find the controller, target, disk, & slice information for this new flash
drive.

Any help is appreciated,
Eunice

unixasaurus@yahoo.com (Eunice Santorini) writes:


> The next step is supposed to be the mount step, but, this failed:
> csh% su root
> csh# mkdir /flash
> csh# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s2:c /flash
> Which reported: mount: /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s2:c is not a DOS filesystem.

This mount command assumes that the media contains a valid FDISK
partition table and the DOS filesystem is inside a separate FDISK
partition. Most of the time this is the case.

But there are devices that don't include an FDISK partition table, the
DOS filesystem starts on sector #0 of the media. In that case the
mount command should look like this (':c' removed):

mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s2 /flash


You can use the "fdisk" command to print the parition table on the
media.

fdisk -W - /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2

If a reasonable fdisk partition table is printed, use the ":c" device
suffix to mount the DOS filesystem, otherwise try to omit the ":c"
suffix.


Btw. your device path looks a bit strange for an USB mass storage
device. An USB mass storage device should always use "scsi target
#0", so that device path using "...t1..." is probably not your
USB device!

> Probably I have the data incorrect in the mount line for the
> controller:target:disk:slice:1 information in the mount command.
>
> But, how do I find out that data for the mount command?

Try "devfsadm -v -i sd", followed by "iostat -En". You can use the
device's Product name to identify the entry for your USB flash device
in the iostat output, the Unix device name (the part following
/dev/rdsk/ or /dev/dsk/) is printed in front of the entry.

Here's an example for a SOYO BayOne 6-in-1 USB flash card reader:

% iostat -En
.....
c6t0d0 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
^^^^^^
Vendor: SOYO Product: USB Storage-CFC Revision: 0180 Serial No: USB Storage-CFC
Size: 1.08GB <1077608448 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

c6t0d1 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
^^^^^^
Vendor: SOYO Product: USB Storage-SMC Revision: 0180 Serial No: USB Storage-SMC
Size: 0.02GB <16384000 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

c6t0d2 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
^^^^^^
Vendor: SOYO Product: USB Storage-MSC Revision: 0180 Serial No: USB Storage-MSC
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

c6t0d3 Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
^^^^^^
Vendor: SOYO Product: USB Storage-MMC Revision: 0180 Serial No: USB Storage-MMC
Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0

....

I think part of my problem is that folks say I must turn off something
called 'vold' (volume management daemon).

In my /etc/vold.conf file, after stopping vold and before restarting it,
is this last 'use rmdisk drive' line listed below the one I need to
comment out in Sun Solaris 8?

# Database to use (must be first)
db db_mem.so
# Labels supported
label cdrom label_cdrom.so cdrom
label dos label_dos.so floppy rmdisk pcmem
label sun label_sun.so floppy rmdisk pcmem
# Devices to use
use cdrom drive /dev/rdsk/c*s2 dev_cdrom.so cdrom%d
use floppy drive /dev/rdiskette[0-9] dev_floppy.so floppy%d
use pcmem drive /dev/rdsk/c*s2 dev_pcmem.so pcmem%d forceload=true
use rmdisk drive /dev/rdsk/c*s2 dev_rmdisk.so rmdisk%d <==== comment this line?