Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive

Operating the Floppy Drive

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.

Saving Files to a Floppy Diskette

Use the following instructions to save files to a floppy diskette:

1Check that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in the write position.

2Load the formatted floppy diskette into the disk drive.

3Click on the Terminal Control on the Front Panel of your Workspace.

Terminal Control

A terminal window opens.

4Move the mouse cursor into the terminal window and click the left mouse button.

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