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From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
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>From: Richard Zidlicky <Richard.Zidlicky@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

>> >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.

J?rg

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