Formatting A New Diskette; Transferring Data To And From A Floppy Diskette - HP Visualize J280 Owner's Manual

The tar (tape file archiv-
er) command saves files
to a floppy diskette, re-
stores files from a floppy
diskette, or lists files on
a floppy diskette.
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Formatting a New Diskette

You must always format a new floppy diskette with the mediainit
utility before using it. To format a new floppy diskette follow these
steps:
1.
Log in as root.
2.
Make sure that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in
the write position, as shown in Figure 4–1.
3.
Insert the diskette into the floppy disk drive.
4.
In a terminal window, execute mediainit with an interleave of 2
by entering the following:
mediainit –i 2 devicefile
where devicefile is the device file as listed by sam.

Transferring Data To and From a Floppy Diskette

This section describes how to transfer data to and from your floppy
diskette (saving and restoring) using the HP-UX tar command with
your floppy drive's device file.
You need to set the write protect tab to the write position to transfer
data to the diskette. The write-protect tab can be in either position
when restoring data from a diskette or listing the files on a diskette.
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