[geeks] Suprise - ext. USB HD "Just Worked" under Solaris 10

[Lionel Peterson]

I was suprised that an external USB HD "just worked" on my Sun Blade 1000 (future) desktop. On a whim I just plugged an 80 Gig USB 2.0 Hard Drive in to my system that was running Solaris 10 06/06, and without even a pop-up dialog mounted the drive as /dev/rmdisk (IIRC)...

This may be old-hat to many, but I was caught by suprise by this.

When I say it worked, I was able to browse the filesystem, copy files onto the local drives off the ext. drive, etc...

Anyway, I wasn't expecting it to just work - but it did.

Lionel