Hi Gurus,
I have difficulty in configuring removable hard disk in Solaris 8.
I have connected hard disk to machine but I do not know how to configure it.
Kindly tell me, how should I configure it .. so that I can create a mount point on this and write files to them.
Regards
Srini
what kind of "removable" disks?
thoshiba hard disk
ooooh come on... how do you connect the drive to your system...? we need to know as much details you can deliver.
I am connecting this via USB port.
I tried below.
1) I tried killing vold process with -HUP signal.
2) Stopped /etc/init.d/volmgt
3) Now I am unable to start it.
When I execute /etc/init.d/volmgt start
It shows nothing failure, but when I grepped for vold deamon, I am not able to find it.
I tried starting service even after removing that thoshiba disk also. But no difference...
That is ... now I am unable to start volmgt now.
4) I executed "devfsadm" command. But no difference I found.
All the difference I can see is ..... Just in "prtconf -v" command output ...
I can see below message in prtdiag out put,when disk is connected.
Hardware properties:
name <latency-timer> length <4>
value <0x000000a0>.
usb, instance #0
Driver properties:
name <pm-want-child-notification?> length <0> -- <no value>.
Hardware properties:
name <root-hub> length <0> -- <no value>.
name <latency-timer> length <4>
value <0x00000040>.
storage, instance #0
Driver properties:
name <pm-components> length <52>
value 'NAME= scsa2usb0 Power' + '0=USB D3 State' + '3=USB D0 State'
name <scsi-selection-timeout> length <4>
value <0x000000fa>.
name <scsi-options> length <4>
value <0x00107ff8>.
name <scsi-watchdog-tick> length <4>
value <0x0000000a>.
name <scsi-tag-age-limit> length <4>
value <0x00000002>.
name <scsi-reset-delay> length <4>
value <0x00000bb8>.
Hardware properties:
name <self-probing> length <0> -- <no value>.
name <compatible> length <127>
value 'usb4fc,c25.103' + 'usb4fc,c25' + 'usbif4fc,class8.6.50' + 'usbif4fc,class8.6' + 'usbif4fc,class8' + 'usbif,class8.6.50' + 'usbif,class8.6' + 'usbif,class8'
name <reg> length <4>
value <0x00000002>.
name <assigned-address> length <4>
value <0x00000002>.
disk, instance #0
Driver properties:
name <pm-components> length <30>
value 'NAME=spindle-motor' + '0=off' + '1=on'
name <removable-media> length <0> -- <no value>.
name <pm-hardware-state> length <21>
value 'needs-suspend-resume'
name <ddi-kernel-ioctl> length <0> -- <no value>.
Hardware properties:
name <inquiry-revision-id> length <5>
value 'HT09'
name <inquiry-product-id> length <16>
value 'HTS54322Hitachi'
name <inquiry-vendor-id> length <8>
value 'Hitachi'
name <inquiry-device-type> length <4>
value <0x00000000>.
name <usb> length <0> -- <no value>.
name <compatible> length <7>
value 'usb_sd'
name <lun> length <4>
value <0x00000000>.
name <target> length <4>
value <0x00000000>.
ide, instance #0
Driver properties:
name <target2-dcd-options> length <4>
value <0x000000a4>.
name <target0-dcd-options> length <4>
value <0x000000a4>.
name <dcd_options> length <4>
value <0x000000a5>.
name <pm-components> length <56>
value 'NAME=ide-controller' + '0=Device D3 State' + '3=Device D0 State'
Hardware properties:
name <latency-timer> length <4>
value <0x00000010>.
disk (driver not attached)
cdrom (driver not attached)
dad, instance #0
an USB drive might work or it might not work at all... i would try the following:
be sure to use a filesystem on the disk solaris can handle! NTFS on an external disk is not a good choice!
Thanks for reply 
Stopped volmgt.
Attached disk.
Nothing is there in "dmesg" or /var/adm/messages
How to mount it by hand ??
if there are no signs of the disk in "dmesg" you can't mount it, cause the disk isn't recognized by the system...