Using USB Mass Storage Devices

Removable mass storage devices such as USB CD-RWs, disks, DVDs, digital cameras, Zip, Jaz, Clik!, SmartMedia, CompactFlash, and ORB are supported, starting with the Solaris 9 release.

For a complete list of USB devices that are supported in the Solaris environment, see http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/storagesolutions.html.

These devices can be managed with or without volume management. For information on managing devices with volume management, see vold(1M).

Using Non-Compliant USB Mass Storage Devices

If you connect a USB mass storage device to a system running the Solaris 9 release and the system is unable to use it, you can check the /kernel/drv/scsa2usb.conf file to see if there is a matching, commented entry for this device. For a listing of recommended USB mass storage devices, go to http://www.sun.com/io.

Some devices might be supported by the USB mass storage driver even though they do not identify themselves as compliant with the USB mass storage class or identify themselves incorrectly. The scsa2usb.conf file contains an attribute-override-list that lists the vendor ID, product ID, and revision for matching mass storage devices, as well as fields for overriding the default device attributes. The entries in this list are commented out by default, and can be copied and uncommented to enable support of particular devices.

Follow the information given in the scsa2usb.conf file to see if a particular device can be supported by using the override information.

For more information, see scsa2usb(7D).