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Operating the floppy drive – HP 2240 User Manual

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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 currently in use on your system:

1.

Enter the following at a command prompt:

/usr/sbin/ioscan –d sflop

Enter

After a few moments the ioscan utility lists all of the SCSI
floppy I/O devices it could find. The list appears similar to the
following:

H/W Path Class Description

============================================

bc

8 bc I/O Adapter

8/12 ba Core I/O Adapter

8/12/5 ext_bus Built-in SCSI

8/12/5.0 target

8/12/5.0.0 disk TEAC FC-1 HF 07

If ioscan does not see any SCSI drives it returns the following
message:

ioscan: No hardware found

If you receive this message, go to Chapter 6, “Solving Prob-
lems.”

Operating the
Floppy Drive

The ioscan utility verifies
the configuration of all
drives.