From chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Thu May 22 10:50:34 2008 From: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 10:50:34 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Suns-at-Home] The Great SPARC Floppy Muddle Message-ID: <200805220950.m4M9oYiD008860@clerew.man.ac.uk> Having attempted to relocate a Flopy Drive from a SPARC-5 to an Ultra-2, and encountered all sorts of misfeatures, bugs and incompatibilities, I have written it all up on my website at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl/floppy-muddle.html Hopefully, this will provide a general guide to how SPARCs and Solaris (mis)handles floppies. Comments will be welcomed. Share and Enjoy! -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: chl@clerew.man.ac.uk Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5