Sun Microsystems Enterprise 250, Owner'S Manual

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If the server is set up without a local console, you need to set up a console on it in
order to issue software commands; see:
4
“About Setting Up a Console” on page 49
If the diskette is write-protected, you have to remove the write protection; see:
4
“How to Allow Writing to a Diskette” on page 215
What to Do
1. Insert a diskette into the diskette drive.
2. From the console device, enter the
fdformat
command.
Type the appropriate command, as listed for your diskette. It takes a minute or
two for the system to format the diskette.
TABLE 11–2
Diskette Density
Storage
Capacity
(Formatted) Command
High Density (HD) 1.44 Mbytes
fdformat -U
Medium Density (MD) 1.2 Mbytes
fdformat -mU
Low Density (2DD) 720 Kbytes
fdformat -lU
You can now write to and read from the diskette.
Using Storage Devices
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