Operating The Floppy Drive - HP Visualize c160 Owner's Manual

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Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive

Operating the Floppy Drive

Using Device Files
Device files are special files that tell your system which system hardware
pathway to use when communicating with a specific device and what kind of
device it is.
To determine what device files are available for use with your floppy drive,
use the following procedure:
1 In a terminal window, enter the following command:
RETURN
sam
2 The System Administration Manager window opens. Double-click on Disks
and File Systems->.
3 The Disks and File Systems window opens
4 In the list of drives, click on the floppy drive listing to select it.
5 From the Actions menu, click on View More Information.
A window opens with a list of information for the floppy drive, including the
device files.
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