Operating The Floppy Drive; Formatting A New Diskette; Transferring Data To And From A Floppy Diskette - HP Visualize J5000 - Workstation Owner's Manual

Operating the Floppy Drive

This section describes how to perform tasks with your 3.5-inch floppy
disk drive.

Formatting a New Diskette

Unless a floppy disk is preformatted for use on PCs, you must always
format a new floppy diskette with the mediainit utility before using the
diskette. 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 the illustration two pages back.
3. Insert the diskette into the floppy disk drive.
4. Type the following at the prompt and press
mediainit -i 2 devicefile
where devicefile is the device file as listed by SAM (double-click the
Peripheral Devices
CD drive from the list, and then select the
).
Device Files

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.
Saving Files to a Floppy Diskette
Use the following instructions to save files to a floppy diskette:
1. Check the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette to ensure that it is
in the write position.
Chapter 6
Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
icon, double-click
Device List
Operating the Floppy Drive
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