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Mounting external floppy under Solaris
I am trying to install an external floppy under Solaris 9. It is a SCSI device and visible with "scsi-probe-all". It has address 4 on the SCSi chain. I can see a floppy mount point /dev/fd, but when I attempt to cd to the floppy, I get the message "directory does not exist". Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!!
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/dev/fd is NOT a mount point for floppy devices - it is for file descrptors.
/dev/fd/0 is standard in
/dev/fd/1 is standard out
/dev/fd/2 is standard error
always with reference to the current process
the floppy devices are /dev/fd0 /dev/fd1 ...
was the unit plugged in when the system reconfiration booted, as it is a scsi device the usual rules for detecting floppies are not true ( but it should look like a cd type device, that is removable media ).
The comments from shivsa look good though.
/dev/fd/0 is standard in
/dev/fd/1 is standard out
/dev/fd/2 is standard error
always with reference to the current process
the floppy devices are /dev/fd0 /dev/fd1 ...
was the unit plugged in when the system reconfiration booted, as it is a scsi device the usual rules for detecting floppies are not true ( but it should look like a cd type device, that is removable media ).
The comments from shivsa look good though.
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Thanks all for your input. The problem was the driver for the SCSI controller. After I applied the latest Sun Solaris 9 patches, it worked fine.
I think shivsa deserves the point, however, since he took the time to respond right away.
I think shivsa deserves the point, however, since he took the time to respond right away.
if u prefer to boot, then boot with -r option and everything will be taken care of solaris. your floppy will be mounted and all.