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Operating the floppy drive – HP C100/110 User Manual

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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 in a terminal window to see which devices are cur-
rently in use on your system. The following are examples of using ioscan for
version 9.05 and version 10.0:

1

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

A terminal window opens.

2

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

3

Enter the following at the prompt:

/etc/ioscan (for 9.05)

ioscan (for 10.0)

Terminal Control