Solaris 10: formatting USB floppy diskette

Hi,
Have Solaris 10 installed on a SPARC machine, with a USB floppy drive.
With the USB floppy drive plugged in, system detects it:
$ rmformat
Looking for devices...
1. Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/rmdisk0
Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s2
Physical Node: /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@1c,1/floppy@1/disk@0,0
Connected Device: TEAC USB UF000x 3.00
Device Type: Removable
2. Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0
Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2
Physical Node: /pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/ide@1f/sd@0,0
Connected Device: TEAC DV-W28SLC 1.0C
Device Type: DVD Reader/Writer
I am trying to format the floppy but get the following message:
$ fdformat -U -d -B /export/home/windriver/vxworks-6.6/host/sun4-solaris2/bin/vxld.bin
No such volume (or no media in specified device): floppy
Any ideas?

Hi!
try
fdformat -U -d -B /export/home/windriver/vxworks-6.6/host/sun4-solaris2/bin/vxld.bin /vol/dev/aliases/rmdisk0
or
fdformat -U -d -B /export/home/windriver/vxworks-6.6/host/sun4-solaris2/bin/vxld.bin /dev/rdsk/c2t0d0s2
Regards.

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