Saturday, April 24, 2010

Using USB to copy between Windows and Solaris, not

While OpenSolaris build 134 will automount a FAT32 usb drive, it can't seem to read it reliably. While trying to get the 'nfo' network driver installed the downloaded file had crc errors by the time I got it to the Solaris machine (which it does not have when downloaded directly on Solaris).

The windows GUI for formatting flash drives makes no reference to UDFS and defaults to Fat32. It turns out, you can format it properly from the command line:
format g: /fs:UDF

So, I expected that to be the answer, but then I couldn't manage to mount it on the Solaris side.

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