> > 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

Ok, that's a standard PS/2 floppy.

> > 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

Hmm, that could be bug 6294851; the solaris floppy driver
thinks the floppy media was changed, when the floppy media
wasn't changed at all:

http://www.riddleware.com/solx86/solarisonintel/msg36653.html
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6294851

You can try to workaround the problem by removing the 
lines (or patching out the code):

   1648         if (fcp->c_mode == FDCMODE_30)
   1649                 digital_input ^= FDI_DKCHG;

from the fdcsense_chng() function:
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/common/io/fdc.c#fdcsense_chng
 
 
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