Need help getting floppy disc to format

When i run volcheck some times get media in drive and I sometimes do not , basically I need to no how i can get my floppys to format and which commands and files to check to see if the floppy drive is working.... my two cdroms work fine but i cannot read data from floppy discs (I no my floppy drive is 100% ok) so what would I do to remedy this problem? I have read numerous man pages and non english documentation which was no good.
Excuse my sinisism but Im starting to get really hacked of with solaris and its lack of support or incomplete examples
any help appreciated
David

Hi David
u can use #fdformat commnad to format the floppy.and also with -F option u can define the fstype ufs/pcfs . for more info u can go through man pagaes. hope this will helpu out.
good luck
shravan

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