Mounting USB Thumb Drive on Solaris NV: HowTo
I used vold to mount flash device on solaris Nevada.
I had lexar jumpDrive.
This method I learnt by trial and error, so I do not claim its flawless.
You may use it at your risk.
In order to make vold detect the USB flash device it's necessary
to obtain the correct controller id and target and fill in c*s2
for the line 'use rmdisk' in vold.conf file i.e.
use rmdisk drive /dev/rdsk/c3t0*s2 dev_rmdisk.so rmdisk%d
in /etc/vold.conf file
if vold is not using this file re start the daemon with -f /etc/vold.conf command and check if its running,
bash-3.00# ps -ef | grep vold
root 479 1 0 11:19:35 ? 0:03 /usr/sbin/vold -f /etc/vold.conf
Insert flash device check if it found by vold.
bash-3.00# volcheck -v
media was found
check the device linkage,
bash-3.00# eject -n
[...]
/dev/sr0 -> cdrom0
/dev/rsr0 -> cdrom0
rmdisk0 -> /vol/dev/rdsk/c3t0d0/noname
cdrom0 -> /vol/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0/nomedia
Verify Storage device size.
bash-3.00# iostat -En
[...]
Vendor: LEXAR Product: JUMPDRIVE SPORT Revision: 3000 Serial No:
Size: 0.52GB <519569408 bytes>
Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
Illegal Request: 5 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
Find out volume management node, logical node
etc.
bash-3.00# rmformat -l
Looking for devices...
[...]
2. Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/rmdisk0
Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0p0
Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci1025,7e@13,2/storage@7/disk@0,0
Connected Device: LEXAR JUMPDRIVE SPORT 3000
Device Type: Removable
Bus: USB
Size: 495.5 MB
Label:
Access permissions: Medium is not write protected.
Mount the device (name is found in earlier step) using volrmmount.
bash-3.00# volrmmount -i rmdisk0
Find out the location where the device is mounted.
bash-3.00# df -kl
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/vol/dev/dsk/c3t0d0/noname:c
507104 1208 505896 1% /rmdisk/noname
Copy files to the flash device mounted on location found above.
bash-3.00# cp ./some-file /rmdisk/noname
Unmount device.
bash-3.00# volrmmount -e rmdisk0
Remove media and check it is removed from kernel states as well.
bash-3.00# volcheck -v
no media was found
Posted at 01:28PM Jun 29, 2006 by ddeepti in General |