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Two questions about Solaris 2.x and the floppy drive on SPARCstations:

  (1) Has anyone ported MTOOLS to Solaris 2.1?  I have tried using
      Mtools 2.0.7 with no success...

  (2) Is there a raw device entry in /dev/ for the floppy drive?  I'd
      to specify the equivalent of "/dev/rfd0", but there is no "fd"
      under "/dev/rdsk"...

Thanks.

      Mike Jipping
      Hope College Department of Computer Science

      "Daddy, what's Snoopy's last name?"
                                   -- my 3-year-old daughter

It looks like 2.05 works ok for us.

Quote:>  (2) Is there a raw device entry in /dev/ for the floppy drive?  I'd
>      to specify the equivalent of "/dev/rfd0", but there is no "fd"
>      under "/dev/rdsk"...

Tru /dev/rfd*

Casper.

No real porting required.  I was able to use the SunOS 4.x executables under
Solaris 2.1.  I did recompile it anyway.

Quote:>  (2) Is there a raw device entry in /dev/ for the floppy drive?

Yes.  /dev/diskette, and /dev/rdiskette

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|> Two questions about Solaris 2.x and the floppy drive on SPARCstations:
|>
|>   (1) Has anyone ported MTOOLS to Solaris 2.1?  I have tried using
|>       Mtools 2.0.7 with no success...
|>

Yep, and didn't have a problem (using gcc 2.2.3?).  Your CFLAGS in the
makefile should be:

CFLAGS  = -O -DSPARC

|>   (2) Is there a raw device entry in /dev/ for the floppy drive?  I'd
|>       to specify the equivalent of "/dev/rfd0", but there is no "fd"
|>       under "/dev/rdsk"...
|>

It uses rfd0c, so this is what I have:

DINO(/1): file /dev/rfd0c
/dev/rfd0c:     symbolic link to rdiskette
DINO(/1): file /dev/rdiskette

|> Thanks.
|>
|>       Mike Jipping
|>       Hope College Department of Computer Science

|>
|>       "Daddy, what's Snoopy's last name?"
|>                                    -- my 3-year-old daughter
|>
|>
|>  

Sure.

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