Floppy drive problem

i can't mount a floppy disk, i'd try with volcheck and manually "mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette0 /floopy" and i got "mount-point /floppy does not exist"
if i create it with mkdir i got "mount I/O error"
what can i do?

To be really sure, try to enable the floppy driver's debug output messages using the command
echo 'fcerrlevel/W0' | adb -wk
and retry a "dd" read access to the floppy media:
dd if=/dev/rdiskette of=/dev/null bs=512 count=2
On the console window or in /var/adm/messages you should now find lots of debug output.
Is there any "WARNING: diskette 0 changed!!!" message logged? If yes, then the patch should help.
Btw. the original user reporting the problem also mentioned the "no such device or address" error:
http://www.riddleware.com/solx86/solarisonintel/msg36374.html
It's possible that the first floppy access get's the "no such device or address" error, and subsequent
accesses get the I/O error.

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