> Not sure how the floppy ITU is failing on your PC. > Can you give us a few more details how it fails? >
Looks like I should have tested this more thoroughly. Solaris won't access the floppy drive at all. > When Solaris is installed (or when you boot into a > single > user shell from the installation media), does it see > a > floppy device /dev/rdiskette and /dev/diskette ? /dev/rdiskette is a symlink to ../devices/isa/[EMAIL PROTECTED],3f0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:c,raw /dev/diskette is a symlink to ../devices/isa/[EMAIL PROTECTED],3f0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:c > > Is it possible to read from the floppy media, e.g. > with > "dd if=/dev/rdiskette of=/dev/null count=36" ? I get this error: dd: /dev/diskette: open: I/O error > > Is it possible to identify the filesystem format for > the > floppy media in the drive, using "fstyp -v > /dev/diskette"? > That fails as well with this error: unknown_fstyp (cannot open device) The weird thing is that each time I issue these commands, the drive *is* accessed for a few seconds. Cheers Andrew. > > If the floppy media isn't accessible through the > /dev/rdiskette > device, it could be: > > - you're using an usb floppy device, which isn't > supported for floppy ITU media > > - bug 6312400, "ps/2 floppy is not enumerated when > acpi is disabled or not supported" > > ttp://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug > _id=6312400 > > - bug 6294851, "Some system boards incorrectly detect > floppy controller as needing FDCMODE_30, fail to > detect change" > > ttp://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug > _id=6294851 > > - ... maybe yet another bug ... This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
