Formatting A New Diskette; Transferring Data To And From A Floppy Diskette - HP Model 745 - VME Workstation Owner's Manual

2 The System Administration Manager window opens. Double-click on
Disks and File Systems->.
The Disks and File Systems window opens.
3
In the list of drives, click on the floppy drive listing to select it.
4
From the Actions menu, click on
5
A window opens with a list of information for the floppy drive, including
the device files.

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:
Log in as root.
1
Make sure that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in the write
2
position, as shown in
3 Insert the diskette into the floppy disk drive.
4 In a terminal window, execute mediainit with an interleave of 2 by enter-
ing the following:
mediainit -i2 devicefile Enter
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.
The tar (tape file archiver) command saves files to a floppy diskette, restores
files from a floppy diskette, or lists files on a floppy diskette.
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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Figure 8-9
Using Mass Storage Devices
Operating the Floppy Drive
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