1.
Open
the
drive cover. Depending on the type of diskette drive(s)
installed in your system, the drive cover is opened either by pushing
a
lever,
or by pushing the cover
upwards.
2.
Insert the diskette
into
the slot with its label facing upward and out-
ward, as shown
in
Figure 3-3.
3.
Push the diskette gently into the drive, until you feel it settle into
position
.
Don't attempt to force it;
if
it won't go easily, withdraw the
diskette and re-insert
it.
4.
When
the
diskette has settled into position, close the drive cover.
REMOVING A DISKETTE
To remove a diskette, open
the
drive cover. This automatically pushes
the
diskette
out
of
the
drive so that
it
can be removed.
A diskette
can
safely be removed with the system turned on or off. That
makes no
difference. It is extremely important, however, that you
NEVER
remove a
diskette while
it is
being accessed by the system
--
read
from
or written
to.
Doing so will cause, at best, an error condi-
tion
;
at worst,
it
will destroy the information on the diskette.
You
can
tell if
a diskette
is
being accessed by looking at the indicator
light
of
the
drive
it is in.
If its indicator light is on, don't remove the
diskette
(see Figure
3-3).
DRIVE IDENTIFIERS
To read information from,
or write
information
to, a diskette you must
specify
the drive
in which the
diskette
is
loaded. To specify the drive,
you use a "drive identifier
".
The
form of the drive identifier depends
on the
operating
system being
used
.
With MS-DOS and Concurrent
CP/M-86
alphabetic identifiers
are
used
:
•
The lower diskette drive is drive
A.
• The upper
diskette
drive,
if
present
,
is drive B.
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