[Suns-at-Home] USB drive in Sun Blade 100 / 150

[Hugh Coomes]

Dave Dennis wrote:
> List,
>
> Checked FAQ (only one found seemed to be 2000 and before),
> what I want to find is whether USB drives commonly available for PC and Mac
> will work / be able to format as UFS or a format Solaris 9 / 10 recognizes.
> Also if there are recommended USB hard drives / thumb drives for use with
> Sun Blades 100 / 150 .
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave D
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I have used ATA drives in USB enclosures (specifically I/O Magic 
enclosures) on Ultra 60's and an Ultra 20.  For the Ultra 60's I used
a Belkin fsu 220 USB card, using Solaris 10 11/06.  On the Ultra 20
I am running Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07, on which support
for USB drives is much better.  In both cases ZFS was used.  I have
not formatted a USB drive for UFS but have no problem reading UFS
file systems on USB disks.  The I/O Magic boxes use a Prolific 
Technology ATA to USB interface and work quite well for ATA disks,
and acceptably for a Plextor 750a DVD writer.  Have no experience
with commonly available "USB Drives", but I see no reason they would not 
work on Solaris 10.  No experience with Solaris 9 either in this 
context, but support for USB drives is probably problematic at best on 
Solaris 9.

Hugh Coomes