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VMWARE Workstation - Solaris 11 - mount USB flash drive

user9368043Sep 24 2012 — edited Sep 27 2012
I have installed Solaris 11 on my VMWare Workstation 9.0.0 using the live CD. I have connected an 8 GB USB flash drive to the Workstation.

How do I find out which device represents the flash drive?

The following commands:

su
format

only show a single available disc, which is probably the virtual hard drive.

Thanks in advance,
Dusan R.

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muvvas
try to run devfsadm -v

and check volfs is running or not

svcs -l volfs
user9368043
Thanks for your answer.

Running

su
devfsadm -v

gives an empty response.

Running

svcs -l volfs

gives the following output:

Pattern 'volfs' does not match any instances.

Furthure help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Dusan R.
muvvas
Hi,

have u added the usb controller to the solaris vm

if not vm--->setting--->hardware--->add usbcontroller

next add removable usb device to soalris vm

vm--->removeable devices--->usb connect

on soalris 11 vm check the services

root@solaris11:~# svcs hotplug rmvolmgr
STATE STIME FMRI
online 5:03:49 svc:/system/hotplug:default
online 5:30:10 svc:/system/filesystem/rmvolmgr:default

try to restart the service ,then you can see the dmesg like this

Sep 28 05:39:16 solaris11 usba: [ID 349649 kern.info] JMicron USB to ATA/ATAPI bridge 100323B40017
Sep 28 05:39:16 solaris11 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] scsa2usb0 is /pci@0,0/pci15ad,790@11/pci15ad,770@3/storage@1
Sep 28 05:39:16 solaris11 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci@0,0/pci15ad,790@11/pci15ad,770@3/storage@1 (scsa2usb0) online
Sep 28 05:39:17 solaris11 pcplusmp: [ID 805372 kern.info] pcplusmp: ide (ata) instance 0 irq 0xe vector 0x44 ioapic 0x2 intin 0xe is bound to cpu 1
Sep 28 05:39:18 solaris11 scsi: [ID 583861 kern.info] sd2 at scsa2usb0: target 0 lun 0
Sep 28 05:39:18 solaris11 genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] sd2 is /pci@0,0/pci15ad,790@11/pci15ad,770@3/storage@1/disk@0,0
Sep 28 05:39:20 solaris11 genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci@0,0/pci15ad,790@11/pci15ad,770@3/storage@1/disk@0,0 (sd2) online

even you can confirm from

if its FAT file system no need of additional drives if its ntfs you need to install packages

FSWpart.tar.gz FSWfsmisc.tar.gz

run volcheck command ,
rmmount -l
then is will appear under /media/
if it not mount manually
check the disk in

echo|format

mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/cxtxdxp0:c /mnt

refer:::
https://blogs.oracle.com/mandalika/entry/mounting_windows_ntfs_on_open
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/821-1459/devusbtasks-12.html
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