While we're on the subject, here's what I'd like to see in Solaris: a working USB implementation.
How can it be, that the most advanced operating system on the planet still doesn't properly function with USB devices? For example, I plug in my 80GB external USB drive, and the system will start timing out between scsa2usb and scsi drivers? (Take any Solaris revision, it doesn't matter.) Or, why can't I properly use external USB drives as non-removable storage? After all, one would think that if hot swappable SCSI devices are treated as such, conceptually there would be no difference between that and USB drives. But no. Volume management. vold(1M) is dead, luckily, but even with the new implementation, if the removable media has anything but a single PCFS filesystem, like UFS on s0, UFS on s1, PCFS on s3... I can forget having them all automatically recognized and mounted. Irritating. And I've been using Solaris since 1994! This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
