FAQ: using the Sun floppy drive

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Using the Sun Floppy Drive

Insert your Windows-formatted floppy and type

volcheck -v

This command instructs the Volume Management daemon to check the floppy drive for the presence of a floppy disk, and, if it finds one, to mount it. If the mount succeeds, you can then copy files to and from it by referencing the directory

/floppy/disk-label

You may now copy files to and from the diskette using normal UNIX commands. When you are finished using the disk, you must unmount the floppy by issuing the

eject floppy

command. An example using an unlabeled DOS floppy follows.

andromeda 11:23am ~% volcheck -v
media was found
andromeda 11:24am ~% cp motd.ps /floppy/no_name/
andromeda 11:24am ~% ls /floppy/no_name/
motd.ps
andromeda 11:26am ~% eject floppy
/vold/dev/rdiskette0/no_name can now be manually ejected

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