[geeks] Suprise - ext. USB HD "Just Worked" under Solaris 10

[velociraptor]

On 11/4/06, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
> I was suprised that an external USB HD "just worked" on my Sun Blade 1000 (future) desktop. On a whim I just plugged an 80 Gig USB 2.0 Hard Drive in to my system that was running Solaris 10 06/06, and without even a pop-up dialog mounted the drive as /dev/rmdisk (IIRC)...
>
> This may be old-hat to many, but I was caught by suprise by this.
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> When I say it worked, I was able to browse the filesystem, copy files onto the local drives off the ext. drive, etc...
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> Anyway, I wasn't expecting it to just work - but it did.

IEEE 1394/Firewire "just works", too, assuming the filesystem type is
known to Solaris.

I have been patching a bunch of workstations at $ork, and the SB1000
is a hellofalot faster than 2x400Mhz cpu U80s, I must say.  SB1K's
take about 2hrs or so; U80's about 4.

=Nadine=