On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, James Lick wrote:
Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
dd: /dev/rdiskette: open: No such file or directory
So, as far as Solaris is concerned, there is no floppy drive at all. It has
worked fine before switching to new ACPI architecture.
I see you've already fixed your problem, but just wanted to add that I had a
similiar problem with the floppy controller not showing up also. I fiddled
around with a bunch of BIOS settings so I can't be sure which one fixed
things, but one of them was to enable acpi in the BIOS. My OpenSolaris box
is a fairly old one and ACPI defaults to off. Looks like there are a few
bugs lurking in the new ACPI code.
I have just rebooted my machine to see if there are any options related to
"ACPI aware OS" or "PNP enable" or anything similar, but couldn't find
anything. BIOS menu on this machine (Dell Optiplex GX150) is pretty
limited. The only, sort of interesting, and non-obvious option (to me at
least) was IOAPIC which was set to disabled and enabling it would panic
the Solaris kernel (at least Solaris b16 and with old BIOS), so I learned
not to touch it.
Thanks for all help and suggestions.
Bye, Dragan
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Dragan Cvetkovic,
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