HP b1000 Additional Floppy Drive Information, Configuring the Floppy Driver, For More Information

Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive

Additional Floppy Drive Information

Additional Floppy Drive Information

This section provides information about configuration of the floppy disk driver and information about useful HP-UX commands for copying and listing floppy disk files.

Configuring the Floppy Driver

If you reload software or rebuild the Instant Ignition system on your computer, you may need to reconfigure the HP-UX kernel to add the floppy disk driver. Use the SAM utility to add the sioflop disk driver and build a new HP-UX kernel.

For more information about how to reconfigure the kernel using SAM, see the following manuals:

•Managing Systems and Workgroups

•Using HP-UX

For More Information

For more information on using tar and a complete list of the command arguments, refer to the tar man page by typing the following command in a terminal window at the prompt and pressing Enter:

man tar

You can mount the floppy drive as a file system using the SAM utility. Be sure to unmount the drive before removing it as a file system. For more information about how to mount and unmount the floppy drive, see the manual Using HP-UX.

For more information on copying data to or from your system to other media, including your floppy diskette, refer to the cpio man page by typing the following command in a terminal window at the prompt and pressing Enter:

man cpio

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