System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

How to Add a USB Mass Storage Device Without vold Running

This procedure describes how to add a USB device without vold running.

  1. Add a USB device into the USB port.

  2. Verify that the USB device has been added.

    Locate the USB disk device links, which may be among device links of non-USB storage devices, as follows:


    $ cd /dev/rdsk
    $ ls -l c*0 | grep usb
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          67 Apr 30 15:12 c1t0d0s0 ->
    	../../devices/pci@1f,0/pci@5/pci@0/usb@8,2/storage@1/disk@0,0:a,raw