> (btw, volcheck didn't react to floppies on my machine here) What happens when you stop vold, and try to read from the PS/2 floppy using dd?
# /etc/init.d/volmgt stop # dd if=/dev/rdiskette of=/dev/null bs=18k Does that report I/O errors? For Solaris 8 x86 .. Solaris 10 x86, most users that reported floppy drive problems with S-x86 have been able to fix this using a binary patch to the Solaris fdc driver, for example for Solaris 9 x86: http://www.riddleware.com/solx86/solarisonintel/msg36664.html On certain modern x86 machines the floppy controller is mis-identified as a "PS/2 Model 30" controller [1] and for the model 30 hardware the Solaris x86 fdc driver contains a special workaround for the interpretation of the "disk change signal" [2]. The result is that the fdc driver signals "the floppy media was changed" when the media wasn't changed at all. And as soon as a media changed was detected, all attempts to access the floppy result in EIO errors. [1] http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/common/io/fdc.c#587 586 /* first test for mode == Model 30 */ 587 fcp->c_mode = (inb(fcp->c_regbase + FCR_SRB) & 0x1c) ? 588 FDCMODE_AT : FDCMODE_30; [2] http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/common/io/fdc.c#1684 1683 digital_input = inb(fcp->c_regbase + FCR_DIR); 1684 if (fcp->c_mode == FDCMODE_30) 1685 digital_input ^= FDI_DKCHG; 1686 return (digital_input & FDI_DKCHG); This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org