[Sunhelp] LS120 Support in Solaris 7 x86

[George Thiruvathukal]

On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Wes Hofmann wrote:

> Does Solaris 7 x86 support the LS120 drive?  That drive actually
> replaces my floppy in my desktop and my bios supports booting from that
> drive as if it were a regular diskette drive.  Unfortunately, the
> Solaris 7 install dies saying that it can't find the diskette drive.  Is
> there a solution to this?  Thanks!

I don't think that's possible. You might be able to boot off of it, but
nearly all LS-120's are IDE devices. The volume manager only supports
removable drives if they are SCSI - the rmscsi type in /etc/vold.conf. The
exceptions are IDE CD-ROMs and the plain old floppy drives which have
their own controller.

Sun would have to make an rmide shared library for vold to support IDE
removables.

Now if there was a SCSI LS-120 that should work.

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