Greetings all,

I'm in a bit of a situation. I have this Sunfire 280R system that did not have a floppy drive in it, yet we needed one. We grabbed one from another Sun box we had laying around unused, and installed it. The system couldnt recognize it. Tried another floppy drive (non-sun) and multiple cables, all did not work. Tried both of the cable connections, etc, etc.. drive light won't even come on. It's definitely getting power, though, because when we intentionally reverse the floppy cable, the access light stays on so juice is there..

The system is running Solaris 8, but I dont even think that's the issue seeing as when we run "test floppy" at the OK prompt, it says "floppy not found" or something like that. BIOS doesnt even see it.

I'm primarily a linux guy, so Sun/Solaris hardware and drivers are not native to me. Poking around google yields nothing =( does anyone know what i can possibly do to the system to get it to recognize the drive? Is there an environment setting (not apparent to me in printenv), or jumpers that en/disable the floppy? I cant get any decent documentation from sun without a support account, either, which i dont have quick access to at the moment.

Any ideas appreciated!