So my brother got a PSP from his wife for Christmas, and calls me up wanting to come over to my house and transfer some mp3’s onto it to test out the audio features. Of course I had to let him try it out on my Ferrari4 running Solaris build 28.

Plugged it up via USB and right away vold picked it up and mounted it under /rmdisk which is what I expected. Got the files transferred with no problems. He is having some kind of directory problem he can’t remove from the PSP but I don’t believe it was Solaris related. Most likely a user error (sorry bro). More to come on this.

Major point: PSP and Solaris work well together.

Solaris 10 with a USB key doesn’t get any more simple. I was messing around and found if you type cfgadm it will show dynamically reconfigurable hardware devices: (This was all done on my x86 machine)

root@solaris# cfgadm
Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c2 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
usb0/1 usb-hub connected configured ok
usb0/1.1 usb-storage empty configured unusable
usb0/1.2 unknown empty unconfigured ok
usb0/1.3 unknown empty unconfigured ok
usb0/1.4 unknown empty unconfigured ok
usb0/2 unknown empty unconfigured ok

I saw that it was showing my USB status so then I plugged in my USB key and executed the command again:

root@solaris# cfgadm
Ap_Id Type Receptacle Occupant Condition
c2 scsi-bus connected configured unknown
usb0/1 usb-hub connected configured ok
usb0/1.1 usb-storage connected configured ok
usb0/1.2 unknown empty unconfigured ok
usb0/1.3 unknown empty unconfigured ok
usb0/1.4 unknown empty unconfigured ok
usb0/2 unknown empty unconfigured ok

Notice on USB0/1.1 it now says connected, it recognized when I plugged it in. Then I found out all you have to do is create the directory /rmdisk and restart the vold (Volume Management Daemon) and vold will now pickup your USB key under /rmdisk/rmdisk0. It’s that simple.

root@solaris# mkdir /rmdisk
root@solaris# pkill -HUP vold
root@solaris# ls /rmdisk/rmdisk0
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