What is the secret to mounting a floppy disk under Solaris 10 SPARC?

In Solaris 8 or 9 I'd just plug the floppy into the drive, type
"volcheck" and the floppy would be mounted at /floppy/noname or
something like that.

I created the /floppy directory, put the floppy in the drive, typed
"volcheck" and nothing happened.

"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> writes:

>What is the secret to mounting a floppy disk under Solaris 10 SPARC?

>In Solaris 8 or 9 I'd just plug the floppy into the drive, type
>"volcheck" and the floppy would be mounted at /floppy/noname or
>something like that.

>I created the /floppy directory, put the floppy in the drive, typed
>"volcheck" and nothing happened.

You should not create /floppy yourself.

make sure the volfs and smserver services are running.

Casper

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Casper H.S. Dik wrote:

> "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> writes:
>
>
>>What is the secret to mounting a floppy disk under Solaris 10 SPARC?
>
>
>>In Solaris 8 or 9 I'd just plug the floppy into the drive, type
>>"volcheck" and the floppy would be mounted at /floppy/noname or
>>something like that.
>
>
>>I created the /floppy directory, put the floppy in the drive, typed
>>"volcheck" and nothing happened.
>
>
> You should not create /floppy yourself.
>
> make sure the volfs and smserver services are running.
>
> Casper
>

As far as I can tell neither volfs nor smserver are running. How are
they supposed to be started?

> As far as I can tell neither volfs nor smserver are running. How are
> they supposed to be started?

volfs is maintained by vold. As for smserver, I am not quite sure.
check if SMC is running using /etc/init.d/init.wbem status.

Regards
Victor