SPARCbook Portable Workstation User Guide
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Using SCSI Devices
Using a Tadpole SCSI Floppy Disk Drive
Format a floppy disk by using the
fdformat
command at the Solaris
prompt:
% fdformat
to format a 1.44Mbyte high density floppy
% fdformat -l
to format a 720Kbyte low density floppy
The
fdformat
command partitions the floppy disk following the
standard Sun convention, as shown in Table 7-2.
Caution
Do not remove the disk from the drive while it is being accessed. Disk access
is indicated by the Disk Access LED.
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Mounting a Floppy onto a Filesystem
Mounting the floppy makes the data on the disk appear as part of the
standard filesystem of your SPARCbook, although this is at the expense
of some storage capacity of the disk which is used to store filesystem
information.
Under UNIX, you can directly mount a floppy disk with either an
MS-DOS or a UNIX filesystem.
Formatted disks that you want to use as mounted filesystems must have
a filesystem on them. To make a UNIX filesystem, become root and
enter the following command:
#/usr/sbin/newfs /dev/rdiskette
Before you can use the filesystem on the disk, you must first mount the
disk. To do this, enter the following command:
# mount /dev/diskette /floppy
Partition
Start Track
End Track
a
0
n-2
b
n-2
n-1
c
0
n-1
Table 7-2 Floppy Disk Partitions
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