[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI friendly external drive

[Marion Hakanson]

dkjar at elmira.edu said:
> I have had usb ports hang till reboot as well.  If I plug a drive into  one
> and try to unmount it I can't and when I try to attach something  else to
> that port it is no longer recognized.  I just work through all  of the usb
> ports on my ultra20 and then reboot when I run out. 

I have a scanner that hangs its USB port regularly, but a reboot is not
required to clear it up.  I use "cfgadm -c disconnect" on the port, followed
by "cfgadm -c configure" on it to bring it up again.  I wonder if this would
help with your situation.

Regards,

Marion