> (btw, volcheck didn't react to floppies on my machine here)
What happens when you stop vold, and try to read from the PS/2 floppy using dd?
# /etc/init.d/volmgt stop
# dd if=/dev/rdiskette of=/dev/null bs=18k
Does that report I/O errors?
For Solaris 8 x86 .. Solaris 10 x86, most users that reported floppy drive
problems
with S-x86 have been able to fix this using a binary patch to the Solaris fdc
driver,
for example for Solaris 9 x86:
http://www.riddleware.com/solx86/solarisonintel/msg36664.html
On certain modern x86 machines the floppy controller is mis-identified as a
"PS/2
Model 30" controller [1] and for the model 30 hardware the Solaris x86 fdc
driver
contains a special workaround for the interpretation of the "disk change
signal" [2].
The result is that the fdc driver signals "the floppy media was changed" when
the
media wasn't changed at all. And as soon as a media changed was detected, all
attempts to access the floppy result in EIO errors.
[1] http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/common/io/fdc.c#587
586 /* first test for mode == Model 30 */
587 fcp->c_mode = (inb(fcp->c_regbase + FCR_SRB) & 0x1c) ?
588 FDCMODE_AT : FDCMODE_30;
[2] http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/usr/src/uts/common/io/fdc.c#1684
1683 digital_input = inb(fcp->c_regbase + FCR_DIR);
1684 if (fcp->c_mode == FDCMODE_30)
1685 digital_input ^= FDI_DKCHG;
1686 return (digital_input & FDI_DKCHG);
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