read floppy disk from unix

[Fakir]

I have 6 DS10 stations and I want to install new firmware 7.2.1

When I started from RMC mode with the first station floppy it doesn't run!!

How can I check all floppy devices by reading a floppy disk from unix without shutdown to RMC mode?

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

You probably want to mount the floppy disk onto /mnt with something like:

# mount /dev/disk/floppy0c /mnt

and then check that you can read the contents of the floppy with

# ls -l /mnt

However, is there any reason you can't use the CD version of the firmware ? The latest firmware is also 7.3 by the way...

http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/index.html

Cheers,

Rob

[Victor Semaska_3]

Fakir,

Did you format the floppy before copying the contents from the .zip file to it?

Anyway, if you want to test the floopy drives while running Tru64 you'll have to format the floppy for UFS and mount it. Here are the commands:

# fddisk -fmt -f /dev/disk/floppy0c
# disklabel -rw /dev/rdisk/floppy0c rx23
# newfs -S 512 /dev/disk/floppy0c
# mount -t ufs /dev/disk/floppy0c /mnt

Then you can try copying a small file to and from it.

Vic