> > Floppy doesn't work on sparc/5.6. I tested 5.5 and -currrent and same > > behaviour. > > Actually, it does, on sun4c (slightly different controller). I can > reproduce your symptoms on sun4m but I am not sure whether the floppy > drive is still in working condition. As you have been able to confirm it > works under Solaris, it's clearly a sun4m-specific issue. > On second hand, after going back in time until 3.2 without any floppy success, I supected the drive was the culprit and swapped it with my last spare; and it works like a charm on an SS5/110. I can boot off floppy56.fs fine and access the floppy disk from OpenBSD.
What is your particular system configuration?
