06-01-2010 04:00 PM
I am needing to mount a usb drive on an SRX210. I put it in USB0 and wait for the device to finish with the messages. I have compared an ls of /dev before the insertion to an ls of /dev after. The only difference is the appearance of pass1 and pass2. /dev/da1 does appear for a minute, but disappears after a error message. I cannot get the drive to mount no matter what I try. On the EX series, I mount the drive as /dev/da1s0 often and without trouble.
root@SRX210% mount -t msdosfs /dev/pass1s0 /var/tmp/usb/
mount_msdosfs: /dev/pass1s0: No such file or directory
root@SRX210% ls /dev
bo0s1a da0 gblmem nfs4 stdout
bo0s1c da0s1 geom.ctl nfslock ttyu0
bo0s1e da0s1a gpio null ttyu0.init
bo0s1f da0s1c klog octpkt ttyu0.lock
bpf0 da0s1e kmem pass0 urandom
cfi0 da0s1f log pass1 usb
console da1 md0 pci usb0
cpld devctl md1 random veriexec
ctty devstat md2 rtfifo xpt0
cuau0 fd md3 smb zero
cuau0.init fido mdctl stderr
cuau0.lock fileassoc mem stdin
root@SRX210% mount -t msdosfs /dev/da1s0/ /var/tmp/us(da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): got CAM status 0x4
(da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
(da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): lost device
(da1:umass-sim1:1:0:0): removing device entry
Opened disk da1 -> 6
Anybody had similar happen to them? I'm sure that I can't mount it because of the error, but I don't know what would cause the error. Like I said, it works fine on EX switches.
06-02-2010 12:47 AM
What is the make of the USB drive? It might be that the USB key is incompatible with the host controller hardware on the SRX branch box. You may want to try same or another USB key freshly formated on a Windows machine with FAT16 (if <=2GB) or FAT32 (if >= 4GB).
Officially supported USB drives are from Sandisk and Unigen. Other drives known to work fine are from Transcend, Kingston and Lexar.
From the error message it looks like you get the CAM error even before you execute the mount command. Is that so? If that is the case, it means that JUNOS is not able to read the partition information from the USB key.
Regards
06-02-2010 05:35 AM
It is an SanDisk 8GB. I don't want to try it or another one after formatting. This one is known to work on other Juniper devices and has GBs of data on it.
The annoying part is that JUNOS is able to read the partition info; that is, JUNOS on MX and EX, but not JUNOS on SRX. It pisses me off that Juniper continues to mess up such simple things.
Anybody know if this is fixed in a release after 10.0R3? Not that upgrading will be as easy as it should be.
06-02-2010 07:37 PM
it doesn't have U3 installed on it, does it? I think the release notes say explicitly that it won't recognize a USB drive with any kind of U3 garbage on it.
KB12880 might help
i've found it i easiest to just be consoled into the box, then insert the USB drive, then you should see the messages about it seeing the drive, and what label it is and can go from there.
good luck
06-03-2010 07:30 AM
It does have U3 on it. I am plugged into the console and am watching the output. The SRX does recongize the drive as a U3 SanDisk and errors out CAM.
The drive works and the partition mounts fine on EX and MX. This is not a USB drive to JUNOS issue. It is a USB drive to SRX issue. Juniper is breaking functionality with the newer release. Whether it is a change in hardware that is causing it or changing JUNOS code that is causing it, I don't know. But Juniper needs to fix it, and they can go ahead and enable functionality of "show interface diagnostics optics" while their at it.
I'll wait for Juniper to respond that it is working.
06-03-2010 07:46 AM
JUNOS 9.6 or earlier do not have support for Sandisk 8GB at least on SRX branch platform due to a quirk with the USB key (I am not sure about other JUNOS platforms). This USB stick was qualified for JUNOS 10.0 R3 and later.
Also, U3 partition is not supported by either J-series or SRX as pointed in earlier post.
Regards