Access to floppy drives (ESIX)
rick at tmiuv0.uucp
rick at tmiuv0.uucp
Fri Jun 8 00:13:41 AEST 1990
In article <5605 at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>, trw at aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Weil timothy) writes:
> excuse my ignorance but I've yet to figure out how
> onemoves from disk to disk (HD, oppy A:, floppy B:)
> using aPC-based UNIX OS.
>
> I made an attempt at 'ls -l < /dev/rdsk/ft0'
> which lit up my A: but read from the current directory
> anyways.
>
> Thanks in Ad Vans
You did say "ESIX", didn't you?
Provided you've mounted the drive properly, it should be no problem. If,
on the other hand, it's a CPIO disk or something without a filesystem on it
you could have problems.
By the way, try "ls -l /dev/dsk/f0t". The disk is a block device at
filesystem level, and the "auto-density" selection is "f0t" for the first
floppy, "f1t" for the second.
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