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  • 1.  USB flash drive on AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1

    Posted Sun February 28, 2010 09:23 PM

    Originally posted by: dkcc


    Hi,
    Does anyone know where there is more information about how to use flash drive
    on AIX (More than is available in the Release notes for AIX 5.3 and 6.1)?
    I have two systems. One running AIX 5.3 (5300-11-02-1007) and the other
    running AIX 6.1 (6100-04-03-1009).
    I have been able to write information onto a flash drive using the
    tar and backup commands. I have verified that the information is on the
    flash drive. I have issued a rmdev -l command to make sure that the drive
    is unmounted.
    When I try to access the data on my other system or after a reboot the
    system will not recognize the flash drive. That is; AIX no longer can
    find the data on the drive.
    Anyone know what I am doing wrong?
    Anyone know how to format a flash drive on AIX? I am really getting
    tired of having to find a PC to reformat the drive so that AIX will recognize
    it again.
    Has anyone tried to use the Belkin PCI 4/5 USB port card on a 9114-275 or
    a 8203-E4A system?
    Does anyone know if the Belking PCIe 4/5 USB port card works on the 8203-E4A?

    Bye,
    Dwight
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  • 2.  Re: USB flash drive on AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1

    Posted Fri March 05, 2010 02:09 PM

    Originally posted by: styerd


    Although I have no direct experience myself I have these straightforward notes in regard to a Belkin F5U219 USB adapter with USB 80G WD SATA drives attached. This is for AIX 5.3 TL9+, and AIX 6.1 TL2+. They should be detected at bootup with no problem.

    mkfs -olog=INLINE,ea=v2 -Vjfs2 /dev/usbms1
    mkdir /usb1
    mount -V jfs2 -o log=/dev/usbms1 /dev/usbms1 /usb1

    And away you go. Of course they don't look like hdisks so you dont get any LVM kinds of things.
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