Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:24:59AM -0800, Koyote wrote:
> 
> > Okay- thanks. /dev/rsd0c is working. I am not certain why, though- Why c
> > instead of a?
> 
> The floppy drivers use the minor device (which is represented as the char
> past the number) for things like different densities. That's why you use
> /dev/rfd0a for standard floppy access.
> 
> On disks the minor is used to select partitions - and there is no partitioning
> on the boot floppies. So you need to use the "whole disk" partition, which on
> sparcs happens to be "c" (actually it's probably "c" on everything but i386).



That is what I'd been wondering- I know that slice 'c' is the whole disk
and so hadn't tried that one (in solaris you generally don't touch
that.)

All makes sense now... except (next email)