SE/30 floppy problem

I recently bought an SE/30 (for €10), it's working almost perfectly fine, exept for the floppy .
When it's fully switched on, and the system (7.1) is fully loaded, it can't read any floppies. It only reads them when it's booting the system, so when I want to change the floppy I have to completely reboot the SE/30. So my question is, "Is there some kind of program that looks for the inserted floppies?"

It should read/write Mac-formatted floppy disks without an additional program, because the computer's ROM is programmed to do so, as well as boot from a (bootable) floppy disk, if inserted immediately at startup. If you're trying to read PC-formatted floppy disks, you need an OS 7.1-compatible version of the "Macintosh-PC Exchange" control panel installed. The "Read Me" file for this utility can be found here. If your SE/30 has Apple's "SuperDrive" floppy disk drive, it's capable of reading/writing High Density disks (1.4 MB), Double-Sided Double Density disks (800K), and Single-Sided Double Density disks (400K). After its introduction in 1988, the "SuperDrive" floppy disk drive was included in all Macs, until it was phased out with the first iMacs and B&W G3s.

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Quote from: zzzz on 23-January-06, 22:54:21
Hello,
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xstat(2, "/lib/libadm.so.1", 0x08046AB0) = 0
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setustack(0xD2E72060)
sysi86(SI86FPSTART, 0xD2F7FD18, 0x0000133F, 0x00001F80) = 0x00000001
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brk(0x08061528) = 0
brk(0x08063528) = 0
xstat(2, "/usr/lib/locale/en_US.ISO8859-1/en_US.ISO8859-1.so.3", 0x080464B8) = 0resolvepath("/usr/lib/locale/en_US.ISO8859-1/en_US.ISO8859-1.so.3", "/usr/lib/locale/en_US.ISO8859-1/en_US.ISO8859-1.so.3", 1023) = 52
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mmap(0xD2E53000, 3138, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_INITDATA, 3, 12288) = 0xD2E53000
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memcntl(0xD2E40000, 5388, MC_ADVISE, MADV_WILLNEED, 0, 0) = 0
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munmap(0xD2E60000, 4096) = 0
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close(3) = 0
_exit(0)
# fdformat -t dos -U
Formatting 1.44 MB in /vol/dev/rdiskette0/nomedia
Press return to start formatting floppy.
fdformat: no diskette in drive /vol/dev/rdiskette0/nomedia
do exist any PATH to solution the problem?

-----format produce block system------
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Formatting 1.44 MB in /vol/dev/rdiskette0/unknown_format
Press return to start formatting floppy.
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Formatting 1.44 MB in /vol/dev/rdiskette0/unknown_format
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State: maintenance since Thu 02 Aug 2007 10:44:40 PM PDT
Reason: Restarting too quickly.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-L5
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svc:/network/dns/client:default (DNS resolver)
State: disabled since Thu 02 Aug 2007 10:07:55 PM PDT
Reason: Disabled by an administrator.
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svc:/system/filesystem/volfs:default (Volume Management filesystem)
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Reason: Disabled by an administrator.
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Just took my shiny new K7N2 Delta Motherboard out its bag, Connected it up and powered up. Suprisingly enough thats where my problems started.
It is hanging on the Floppy drive Controller Initialization sequence. Is it RMA time or is there a way round this?
Qtec 400W PSU; Radeon9000Pro AGP; XP2500+ PIB; 512Mb PC3200 Twinmos Dual DDR(only 256 installed at da mo)

Hi:
Fertech
Stilup could be right, try reading the posts in this thread:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/service/forum/index.php?threadid=23291&sid=&hilight=Floppy+Drive&hilightuser=19159
Hope this helps!
Axel

SE/30 floppy problem

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