Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:34:12 +0200 (CEST) | From | Joerg Schilling <> | Subject | Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5 |
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>From: Richard Zidlicky <Richard.Zidlicky@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
>> >Solaris vold? Thanks no, floppy access was so easy in SunOS before the >> >days of the volume manager. >> >> .... and it is even simpler since vold is present. Call volcheck to tell vold >> that the media changed or use a SCSI floppy which supports to tell the kernel >> that a media change did happen.
>when it is properly configured which doesn't seem the common case. >More often than not, things like accessing raw floppy images turn >out to be a problem.
Being properly configured _is_ the common case if you don't change things manually. A standard Solaris system install from scratch will always result in a usable floppy drive that is handled as expected by vold.
Try to keep your fingers away from the vold configuration files after you did a clean install from scratch.
Jörg
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