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Solaris 9 X86 USB Flash Drive

I have an HP server that is running Solaris 9 X86 where it does not seem to want to recoginze the USB flash drive. An identical system running Solaris 10 X86 is fine but not the Solaris 9 system. I have downloaded and applied the latest recommend patch cluster to no avail.

When logged into the console in CDE, the flash drive is not seen when plugged in. I have verified vold is running. I cannot manually mount the device since there is no /dev/usb, /dev/dsk or /dev/rdsk assosicated with this. prtconf does not see usb devices nor does rmformat.

Any ideas on how to get Solaris to see this USB device?

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djpriceAtl

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The problem is that is vold does not create the devices. On Solaris 10, all these are created when I plug in the USB drive - nothing happens in the OS for Solaris 9. I believe there must be a mkfs or something similar to look for and create the usb devices that I must manually run for Solaris 9. The above referenced answers do not work for my situation.

djpriceAtl

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This ended up being a problem with the USB device on the HP ML370 G3 server. When another PCI USB controller board was installed, this USB device worked and was recognized. HP has a firmware upgrade that might resolve the issue (not yet loaded)