Mount disk drive

[Ana Lizcano]

Hello,
How can I do mount a floopy disk drive and copy a file in a diskquete??
Thanks.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

#ioscan -nfCfloppy
#newfs -F vxfs /dev/rfloppy/cxty
#mount /dev/rfloppy/cxty /floppy

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Ana

You neednt mount and do that stuff , you can just place the diskette and take a tar dump .

tar cvf files.

In case you want youcan also put a floopy formmated in windows env and do simple commands like doscp etc .
Do ls -l /bin | grep dos and man on the commands .


Manoj Srivastava

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

See http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xd998ee3e323bd5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

[Sergei Kazakov]

Hi,
you could also use MS-DOS floppy.
You don't need to mout floppy, just pu it in a drive and type "dosls /dev/floppy/c1t1d0:" (your floppy device file name may be different from my, but semicolon after device file name is required).
Here is some useful commands for usind MS-DOS floppy under HP-UX:
- dosls <>/{PATH_on floppy}
- doscp "<>" (swap two parameters source/target to copy from floppy to local file)
- dosrm "<>"
Quotation marks are necessary.
For example:
- dosls /dev/floppy/c1t1d0:DATA:
- doscp transmit_data "/dev/floppy/c1t1d0:TRANS.DAT";
- doscp "/dev/floppy/c1t1d0:DATA/TRANS.DAT" transmit_data
Don't use long file name as file name for floppy file. Use upper case letters for floppy file names.
Good luck,
Sergei Kazakov.