Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive

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.

1In a terminal window, enter the following at the prompt:

ioscan

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

Description

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8

bc

I/O Adapter

8/0

graphics

Graphics

8/16/10

pc

Built-in Floppy Drive

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