HP C100/110 manual Using Device Files, Dev/rfloppy/c20Ad1s0

Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive

Operating the Floppy Drive

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:

Example of version 9.05 output:

H/W Path Description Status

========================================

2.0.10 floppy ok(nnnnnn)

2.0.10.1.0 disk ok(nnnnnn)

2.0.10floppy is the floppy controller. 2.0.10.1.0 disk is the floppy drive. Example of version 10.0 output:

H/W Path	Class	Description
============================================
8	bc	I/O Adapter
8/0	graphics	Graphics
8/16/10	unknown	Built-in Floppy Drive

Using Device Files

Device files are special files that tell your system which pathway to use through the system hardware when communicating with a specific device and what tell kind of device it is.

Your workstation uses the following device file to communicate with the floppy drive:

/dev/rfloppy/c20Ad1s0

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