Very Computer

I am having trouble getting the floopy drive to work
on Solaris 2.5 on my laptop.

The CD works fine (insert the CD, the filesystem is mounted
in /cdrom, I can cd to it, and eject the disk).

When I insert a blank or formatted floppy however, nothing appears
in /floppy.

I seem to be able to format a blank floppy using fdformat.
Volcheck seems to be able to detect that there is a floppy in the drive.
However, tar (or cp) to a file on /floppy doesn't write to the floppy.

I'd like to determine if this is yet another hardware incompatibility
problem (the laptop is a Samsung Sens 810), or a software/configuration
problem.

Thanks.

-Joe Picone

: I am having trouble getting the floopy drive to work
: on Solaris 2.5 on my laptop.

: The CD works fine (insert the CD, the filesystem is mounted
: in /cdrom, I can cd to it, and eject the disk).

: When I insert a blank or formatted floppy however, nothing appears
: in /floppy.

: I seem to be able to format a blank floppy using fdformat.
: Volcheck seems to be able to detect that there is a floppy in the drive.
: However, tar (or cp) to a file on /floppy doesn't write to the floppy.

After formatting, eject floppy, then push it in again. It will be mounted
under /floppy/<label> with symlink /floppy/floppy0 .

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