I'm going to try to not express my exasperation with this situation in my writing.Long story short:Computer: Lenovo y510p, upgraded to an SSD in place of the SSHD last night, reinstalled Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, it's running like a DREAM exceeeept.I cannot for the life of me get the USB Mass Storage Device driver to install (always listed as 'failed' in Windows update, and installing driver from Lenovo's driver page doesn't work either). Thus, I cannot get my external hard drive to show up at all.
Using USB Mass Storage DevicesStarting in the Solaris 9 release, the following USB removable massstorage devices are supported:.CD-RWs.Hard disks.DVDs.Digital cameras.Diskette devices.SmartMedia and CompactFlash devicesFor information about using USB mass storage devices with the OracleSolaris ZFS file system, seeFor a complete list of USB devices that are supported in the Oracle Solaris OS,see:In previous Solaris releases, all USB storage devices were identifiedas removable media devices, which provides many of the following advantages,including automatic mounting. In the Solaris10 6/06 release, USB mass storage devices are identified as hotpluggabledevices but also enjoy the advantages of USB removable devices that are listedbelow.
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For more information about the hotpluggable behavior, see.Starting in the Solaris 10 1/06 release, a hot-pluggable device is automatically mounted.For more information, see.USB storage devices with standard MS-DOS or Windows (FAT)file systems are supported.You can use the user-friendly rmformat commandto create slices. You can also use the fdisk command topartition a USB device, but never use the format utilityor the rmformat -F command to physicallyformat a USB drive.Use the rmformat command to display allUSB devices with media inserted.
For example, see.Non-root users can now access USB storage devices, since the mount command is no longer needed. The device is automatically mountedand is available under the /rmdisk directory.
If a new device is connected while the systemis down, do a reconfiguration boot with the boot -r commandso that the device is recognized.These devices can be managed with or without removable mediaservices.Disks with FAT file systems can be mounted and accessed. Forexample:mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2t0d0s0:c /mnt.All USB storage devices are now power managed, except forthose that support LOG SENSE pages. Devices with LOGSENSE pages are usually SCSI drives connected through a USB-to-SCSIbridge device.Applications might work differently with USB mass storagedevices.