First off... I am about 50 different sys admin lists. This has GOT to be
the most mature, polite, and helpful list of the bunch. I wish to Linux
lists were the same... but I regress.
Thanks to all who answered. The people who contribute to Sun-Managers are
IMHO tops. Yeah, it's true... my problem was pretty simple for anyone
who is 1/2 way knowledgable abut Solaris. But I'm a Linux/BSD guy who
was put in charge of a few Sun boxes. I've purchased every manual I can
find on Solaris, and am learning every day. I needed a quick answer to a
simple problem, and expected many flames, like RTFM! Well vold is a new one
to me, and now I understand the concept, thanks to Sun-Managers. It'll be a
while before I can contribute, but I never had one flame in about 30 responses.
Thank You all.
In tradition of S-M, I post my SUMMARY:
Original Question:
>We have a SunSparc5, Solaris 2.5, and a floppy drive. I could of sworn we
>used to issue the following command to tar files to the floppy device:
>tar -cvf /dev/rdiskette filenames
>When we try that now, it says the device is busy. I issued the mount
>command, and it is not mounted. If I go into filemanager, it finds the disk,
>but can't read it, so I let the format take place.
The Answer (in a nutshell):
Volume Mager has control on the floppy. Do:
solaris# sh /etc/init.d/volmgt stop
Do your tar and then -
solaris# sh /etc/int.d/volmgt start
..... of course, I disabled volmgt from my startup. I find it annoying.
Those who were kind enough to answer & provide insight:
Matthew Zeier <mrz@3com.com>
Cristian Martinez T. <spy@inf.utfsm.cl>
Goran Cvetanoski <Goran@epa.ericsson.se>
Rich Kulawiec <rsk@itw.com>
Glenn Satchell <glenn@uniq.com.au>
Francis Liu <fxl@pulse.itd.uts.edu.au>
Goran Cvetanoski <eeagnc@epa.ericsson.se>
Steve Franks <scf@nabaus.com.au>
Lori Blake <Lori.Blake@Frogtown.Com>
Wouter <sunmngr@dataman.nl>
Stefan Voss <s.voss@terradata.de>
Nedeljko Miljevic <miljac@solidinfo.com>
Tony C. Wu <tonywu@life.nthu.edu.tw>
David Mitchell <davem@fdgroup.co.uk>
Caleb Warner <cwarner@slpma8.ed.ray.com>
Anthony Worrall <Anthony.Worrall@reading.ac.uk>
David Thorburn-Gundlach <dtg@cae091.ed.ray.com>
Noel Fardy <noelf@ttmc.com>
Andrew Moffat <amof@SubaruSparcDev.subaru1.com>
David Wolfskill <david@xtend.net>
Karl E. Vogel <vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil>
James Musso <jam@cdi.cdicad.com>
CHENTHIL KG <chenthil@mtcts1.mt.lucent.com>
Stephen Schumacher <sls@pscc.amtrak.com>
Peter Allan <peter.allan@aeat.co.uk>
Thanks again for your help.
Mark
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Mark A. Bialik (414) 290-6700
Systems/Security Administrator www.pmihwy.com/~markb
Preferred Medical Informatics markb@pmihwy.com
Infinity HealthCare, Inc. mbialik@infinityhealthcare.com
Mequon, WI USA www.linux.org
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