[SPARCbook] Flopy/Removable Storage

[Matthew Haas]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 Oscar.G.Farah at ccmail.census.gov wrote:
> 
> I plugged in a SCSI HP Floppy 3 1/2" in the SCSI port of a 3XP.
> 
> -  When I ran 'probe-scsi', I was informed that the Floppy is a removable
> storage device
>

Notice what SCSI ID the SCSI floppy is on.

> -  When I entered 'test floppy', the response was, cannot find device.
>

"floppy" is an alias pointing to SCSI ID 5, the "standard" for a SCSI
floppy disk on a Sun system.

> -  I also tried 'test removable storage' and the machine could not find that
> device either.
>

I am not sure if this is a valid device? (You can type devalias at the
Open Boot Prom to see all the aliases).
 
> Is there anything I must do to make a floppy be recognized as a  "floppy"?  I am
> new at this and any help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks
>

I suspect you just need to adjust the SCSI ID to 5 and try it again. 

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