Operating The Floppy Drive; Verifying The Floppy Drive Configuration; Using Device Files - HP Model 745 - VME Workstation Owner's Manual

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Using Mass Storage Devices

Operating the Floppy Drive

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

Verifying the Floppy Drive Configuration

To verify that your workstation can communicate with the floppy drive, use
the ioscan command to see which devices are currently in use on your sys-
tem.
1 Enter the following at a command prompt:
/usr/sbin/ioscan Enter
After a few moments the ioscan utility lists all of the I/O devices it could
find. If there is a floppy drive in the list, that listing appears similar to the
following:
H/W Path Class
=========== ============ ===================
8 bc I/O Adapter
8/0 graphics
8/16/10 unknown

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:
sam Enter
Description
Graphics
Built-in Floppy Drive