Thanks for the response tornado. I was almost positive that I've had a floppy in a 280R before, but maybe it was a different model.

We did try a USB floppy drive, two seperate ones in fact, with zero success. The OS just wouldnt recognize the drive. Also had some troubles with thumbdrives - it would NOT recognize a newer SanDisk Cruzer U3 1GB thumbdrive (i removed the U3 system from the firmware a while back to make it a plain old thumbdrive) but it WOULD recognize an old PNY Attache 256MB thumbdrive..

Not sure how good USB support is in Solaris 8, but it may certainly be a limitation. Maybe the information i got on how to mount a USB floppy is incorrect, even though i obtained it from multiple sites =\

For now, i'm using this old thumbdrive, but we need a more permanent solution since i'm not always around.. with my thumbdrive..