HP-UX Floppy Problems

[Tony Williams]

I am trying to read a Floppy on a HP-UX workstation but it is not working. The floppy disk says that it’s a TAR(UNIX format), but when I do a tar -tvf /dev/floppy/c1t1d0 I get an error:
tar: cannot open /dev/floppy/c1t1d0

I also get the same error when I tar to a blank floppy, the tar -cvf works but I cannot read off of the floppy. Is there different commands or different device drivers I should be using?

[Stephen Keane]

Have you tried mounting the floppy drive?

[Tony Williams]

Problem solved, I did try to mount but in looking at the command history I had c1t1d0 instead of c0t0d0 as the device file. Thanks for making me look.