How to Mount external HD drive to Solaris X86

Michelle wrote:
On Mar 24, 5:11 pm, Michelle <serendipity1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I went out and got those 1/2 Terabyteexternalharddrives from both

Maxtor and Seagate. When I plugged in its USB cable onto my Solaris
10 x86 server, it tries to format theharddrive. But that's it. I
can't mount either drive because the format doesn't even run.

Is that anexternalharddrive system that is around 250 GB to 1

Terabyte that works with Solaris 10? Thanks.

So I must have done something wrong. Can someone post the

instructions on how to format an
externalUSBharddrive on Solaris x86, and then, mounting it after
the format is completed?
Currently, whenever I plug in the USB cable, Solaris 10 wants to
format the drive, and then,
it just gets stuck there. Thanks.

Here's a brief summary of my notes from setting up 400 & 750 GB Seagate
drives w/ ufs. Setting up pcfs is similar:

0) disable vold & reboot

mv /etc/vold.conf /etc/vold.conf_disabled

init 6

1) plug in the drive and get the drive designation

rmformat -l

2) clear the old MS cruft

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/???? bs=2048 count=10

Note: I don't think this was really necessary.

My notes don't say why I did it.
Probably just habit.

2) get the number of sectors & create primary partition

fdisk /dev/rdsk/????

3) format the drive w/ newfs

newfs -v [your choice of options] -s number_of_sectors /dev/rdsk/????

Thehardpart was figuring out I needed to give the "-s #_sectors" option.

you'll get a message from newfs that the drive returns a size of zero,
but a seek to the specified size succeeds so it is using the size you
gave it. I've encountered the same message everytime I've formatted a
USB drive. I assume it's a error in the USB mass storage driver failing
to propagate the information properly.

4) mount -F ufs [your mount options] /dev/dsk/???? /mnt

Have Fun!
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This is what I've done:

# rmformat -l

Looking for devices...

1. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0
Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0/sd@0,0
Connected Device: SONY DVD RW AW-G170A 1.75
Device Type: DVD Reader/Writer
2. Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0
Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci1043,81ef@13,5/storage@2/disk@0,0
Connected Device: Maxtor OneTouch 0121
Device Type: Removable

# fdisk /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0

Total disk size is 60800 cylinders

Cylinder size is 32130 (512 byte) blocks

Cylinders
Partition Status Type Start End Length %
========= ====== ============ ===== === ====== ===
1 Active Solaris2 1 60799 60799
100

SELECT ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

1. Create a partition
2. Specify the active partition
3. Delete a partition
4. Change between Solaris and Solaris2 Partition IDs
5. Exit (update disk configuration and exit)
6. Cancel (exit without updating disk configuration)

Enter Selection: 6

So now, what do I type in for the "newfs" command?

I don't know what the number of sectors is.
By the way, does the newfs command format the external hard disk?

Then after the "newfs" command, can I do this command:

# mount -F ufs /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0p0 /mnt