/dev/floppy/c1t6d0 showing up on a SEAGATE ST15150WD drive

[paul courry]

I have floppys and rfloppys showing up on hard drives. These drives are Jamaicas. I believe it is either inheirent to the Jamaicas or a firmware upgrade issue. Opinions?

disk 4 10/4/4.3.0 disc3 CLAIMED DEVICE SEAGATE ST15150W
/dev/dsk/c1t3d0 /dev/floppy/c1t3d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t3d0 /dev/rfloppy/c1t3d0
disk 5 10/4/4.4.0 disc3 CLAIMED DEVICE SEAGATE ST15150W
/dev/dsk/c1t4d0 /dev/floppy/c1t4d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t4d0 /dev/rfloppy/c1t4d0
disk 6 10/4/4.5.0 disc3 CLAIMED DEVICE SEAGATE ST15150W
/dev/dsk/c1t5d0 /dev/floppy/c1t5d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t5d0 /dev/rfloppy/c1t5d0
disk 7 10/4/4.6.0 disc3 CLAIMED DEVICE SEAGATE ST15150W
/dev/dsk/c1t6d0 /dev/floppy/c1t6d0 /dev/rdsk/c1t6d0 /dev/rfloppy/c1t6d0

[Sanjay_6]

Hi paul,

I don't think that /dev/floppy/c?t?d? is inheirent to jamaicas. I have a system without any jamaica disk and i see the same sort of ioscan output over there. I'm attaching the file for you to look at.

Any more opinions.

Thanks
Sanjay

[Philip P. Hartl · Accepted solution]

This is normal. The explanation I have been given is this is because these drives are hot pluggable and therefore removable, HP uses the floppy driver. To the system these are very large floppy drives.

[paul courry]

Thank you all! Case closed..............

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Paul and Philip,

Just wanted you guys to know that the /dev/floppy/c?t?d? and the /dev/rfloppy/c?t?d? files are not there becuase these drivers are hot pluggable. If you get to see the attachment i had posted earlier u'll note that the dev/floppy and dev/rfloppy is there for all the disk drives. And none of them is a hot pluggable one.

Thanks all.
Sanjay