> > 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 This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
