Ultra5 floppy installation

From: Andrej Sydorko (luser_at_port-nospam-alofevil.org)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:16:51 +0100

Hi group

I'm tryinig to install a floppy drive on a Ultra5.
When i bought it, it came with no floppy drive.
So I took a standard PC floppy drive, manual eject, and connected it with a
standard pc floppy cable.
But I cant access the drive.

I also took a floppy drive from a sparcstation 5 along with the original
(straight) floppy cable.
That floppy was unaccessable also. So my question is, does the floppy drive
have to be a sun original?
Or have I missed something? Perhaps configure the openboot or something? I
have the latest OpenBoot installed, downloaded and installed 16/2-05. All
settings are loaded from default.

Maybe worth mentioning that I have close to no experiance with Sun hardware
but I'd love to learn.

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