Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-06 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (There are really only two AML interpreters and compilers: the one found in Windows and the one from Intel (ACPICA) which is used in Solaris, Linux and others. Does Linux actually uses Intel's one or is that written from scratch? If the question is

Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-06 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, James Lick wrote: Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: dd: /dev/rdiskette: open: No such file or directory So, as far as Solaris is concerned, there is no floppy drive at all. It has worked fine before switching to new ACPI architecture. I see you've already fixed your problem, but

Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-05 Thread Casper . Dik
>I see you've already fixed your problem, but just wanted to add that I >had a similiar problem with the floppy controller not showing up also. >I fiddled around with a bunch of BIOS settings so I can't be sure which >one fixed things, but one of them was to enable acpi in the BIOS. My >Open

Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-04 Thread James Lick
James Lick wrote: I see you've already fixed your problem, but just wanted to add that I had a similiar problem with the floppy controller not showing up also. I fiddled around with a bunch of BIOS settings so I can't be sure which one fixed things, but one of them was to enable acpi in the

Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-04 Thread James Lick
Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: dd: /dev/rdiskette: open: No such file or directory So, as far as Solaris is concerned, there is no floppy drive at all. It has worked fine before switching to new ACPI architecture. I see you've already fixed your problem, but just wanted to add that I had a simili

Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-04 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see quite a few acpica related messages (this is nevada b17) at boot time, here they are: Jun 30 12:18:31 lokrum acpica: [ID 972481 kern.warning] WARNING: AcpiOsWritePort: 70 8 not permitt ed Jun 30 12:18:31 lokrum acpica: [ID 815887 kern.noti

Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-04 Thread Casper . Dik
>I see quite a few acpica related messages (this is nevada b17) at boot >time, here they are: > >Jun 30 12:18:31 lokrum acpica: [ID 972481 kern.warning] WARNING: >AcpiOsWritePort: 70 8 not permitt ed >Jun 30 12:18:31 lokrum acpica: [ID 815887 kern.notice] ACPI-0519: *** Error: >Jun 30 12:18:31 l

Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-04 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? It does, sort of. bash-3.00# dd if=/dev/rdiskette of=/dev/null

Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-04 Thread Casper . Dik
>> What happens when you stop vold, and try to read from the PS/2 flop= >py=20 >> using dd? >> >># /etc/init.d/volmgt stop >># dd if=3D/dev/rdiskette of=3D/dev/null bs=3D18k >> >> Does that report I/O errors? > >It does, sort of. > >bash-3.00# dd if=3D/dev/rdiskette of=3D/dev/null bs=3D18

Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-04 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, [UTF-8] Jürgen Keil wrote: (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?

Re: [osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-01 Thread Dragan Cvetkovic
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, [UTF-8] Jürgen Keil wrote: (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?

[osol-discuss] floppy driver problems, [was: b17 copying behaviour?]

2005-07-01 Thread Jürgen Keil
> (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