topic Re: USB flash disk in HP-UX in Operating System - HP-UX

USB flash disk in HP-UX

CAS_2 — Thu, 04 May 2006 01:43:45 GMT

Hi.

I thought to use an USB flash disk (aka USB key) in my HP-UX box.

Does it work ?

I guess neither FAT16 nor FAT32 is recognized by HP-UX, but may it be formatted in other file system types as VxFS or HFS ?

Re: USB flash disk in HP-UX

Warren_9 — Thu, 04 May 2006 01:50:01 GMT

hi,

it is not work on the hp-ux. it is only support mouse/keyboard on the USB.

GOOD LUCK!!

Re: USB flash disk in HP-UX

Peter Godron — Thu, 04 May 2006 02:00:02 GMT

CAS,
somebody else already tried:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=946571

Re: USB flash disk in HP-UX

CAS_2 — Thu, 04 May 2006 03:29:07 GMT

Re: USB flash disk in HP-UX

rick jones — Thu, 04 May 2006 19:47:02 GMT

I suspect that it will never happen on "older" HP-UX versions (eg 11iv1 and before). I've heard talk about supporting USB DVD drives. I think that is born-out by:

http://h20338.www2.hp.com/hpux11i/cache/323705-0-0-0-121.html

which mentions:

USB-00 version C.01.00: Enables USB DVD boot support for future HP servers. Now an always-installed product for Itanium -based servers.

Now, that doesn't say that plain USB mass storage would be supported, but it also does not say anything about whether or not it might "work." I for one do not know how much has to come along for the ride to provide "boot support"

As always, this translation guide might be helpful:

Supported, known to work -> warm fuzzies all around
Supported, not known to not work -> an HPite may be in trouble
Supported, known to not work -> an HPite is in trouble
Unsupported, known to work -> lucky today, unlucky tomorrow?
Unsupported, not known to not work -> there but for the grace of Turing
Unsupported, known to not work -> no, it was not deliberate ;-)