HELP!!!Re: usb mass storage on a non-usb sparc system?

From: Yunxiang Zhang (yxzhang_at_stanford.edu)
Date: 08/09/03 

Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 00:16:16 -0700

Actually sad thing happened. I tried to format the 250GB western digital
external combo hard drive and failed. Then I think I'm going to hook it
back to my winXP. But I can never find the drive in "my computer" although
it shows up in the device manager. What should I do now? How do I rescue
my new hard drive? Please, somebody HELP!

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Yunxiang Zhang wrote:

> Hi, all
>
> I've just installed a addonics pci usb2 host controller on my ultra60. And
> it seem to work properly. After I insert a western digital 250GB external
> hd to one port. It recognized as usb mass storage. But I can't see
> anything when using volcheck -v. What should I do in order to use
> removable media manager? Is it possible to mount it as pcfs? How?
>
> The other question might be silly. Is there a driver supporting usb2?
> Addonics's web site suggests installing a solaris8 patch. But I'm using
> solaris9. Anybody here has any comments on my dreaming of having usb2 mass
> storage on an old non-usb sparc system? Maybe I am mad, but it is even
> crazy to sit there wating for >7000minutes to format my 250GB hard drive.
>
> Thanks for your time! Appreciate your help!
>
>
>

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