FLOPPY DRIVE NOT BEING RECGD IT SEEMS

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I have a PIII M/C with 128 MB ram 20 GB HDD on a 810E mbd.
MY fdd is being recognised in linux and a dir floppy is created in / . But when Instd SOL8 my fdd seems not to be recgd and no floppy dir has been created by default.
I cannot apply the patches for support of 810 vga card since my floppy seems not having been recgd.
is my assumption correct or am Idoing some thing wrong
Pls help.
bye regs
senthil

how to check for vold's presence.With "ps" or "pgrep". For example, like this
% pgrep -l vold
266 vold
The process with PID 266 is the vold process on my
machine.
I have already used volcheck -v but floppy/floppy0is
not there.Does the file/device /dev/diskette exists?
% ls -l /dev/diskette
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 33 Feb 14 15:01 /dev/diskette -> ../devices/isa/fdc@1,3f0/fd@0,0:c
If /dev/diskette does not exist, check
the output of "prtconf -D". Is the "fdc" and "fd"
device node listed? Is the "fdc" and "fd" device
driver attach to the device?
% prtconf -D
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems i86pc
Memory size: 384 Megabytes
System Peripherals (Software Nodes):
i86pc
�� isa, instance #0 (driver name: isa)
motherboard
lp (driver name: lp)
asy, instance #0 (driver name: asy)
asy, instance #1 (driver name: asy)
fdc, instance #0 (driver name: fdc)     <--
fd, instance #0 (driver name: fd)     <--
fd, instance #1 (driver name: fd)     <--

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