>> >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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