My floppy drive will not read?

[Guest_imported]

I have a Sun sparcstation2 that i can't get to read anything on my floppy drive. I running 2.5.1 but i dont know how to find out if it is mounted.

 

[NavinB]

hi,
Although i haven't used this before....just change u'r dir to (cd /floppy) and see if u can see the contents of the floppy and can u pl. confirm thru this if u can see the files.

 

[Guest_imported]

i checked the file and their is nothing in it. What do i do now?

 

[allshousebm]

Hi,
when ever I try to mount a floppy under Solaris I always use the volcheck command which should try to mount all your devices, so put your floppy in use 'volcheck', and then you can do a 'df' to see if it mounted the floppy. The output of the 'df' command should show you a path name that contains floppy somewhere in it and you should be able to 'cd' to that directory to view the contents of your floppy. Hope this helps !!

 

[mbr]

i'm not quite sure for 2.5.1, but it should cover that version as well..

the automated mounting of the floppy should be done by the Volume Management daemon, vold.

you can check if it is running via

ps -ef | grep vold

that should give something like:

  root   208     1  0 09:31:55 ?        0:02 /usr/sbin/vold

if vold is not running, check the runlevel-scripts, you can probably try

/etc/init.d/volmgt start

the next thing to check is the vold-configuration in

/etc/vold.conf

, which should contain something like:

# Labels supported
label dos label_dos.so floppy rmdisk pcmem
label sun label_sun.so floppy rmdisk pcmem

# Devices to use
use floppy drive /dev/rdiskette[0-9] dev_floppy.so floppy%d

see

man vold; man vold.conf

for more infos..

mbr

 

[Guest_imported]

My floppy drive still needs help????