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Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
Transferring Data To and From a Floppy Diskette
This section describes how to transfer data to and from your floppy diskette
(saving and restoring) using the HP-UX tar command with your floppy
drive’s device file.
The tar command saves files to a floppy diskette, restores files from a floppy
diskette, or lists files on a floppy diskette.
You need to set the write protect tab to the write position to transfer data to
the diskette. The write-protect tab can be in either position when restoring
data from a diskette or listing the files on a diskette.
Saving Files to a Floppy Diskette
Use the following instructions to save files to a floppy diskette:
1 Check that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in the write position.
2 Load the formatted floppy diskette into the disk drive.
3 In a terminal window, enter the following command line to write to the diskette:
tar -cvf devicefile pathname
where devicefile is the device file as listed by sam and pathname is the path-
name of the file or directory containing files that you want to write to the dis-
kette.
Restoring Files from a Floppy Diskette to Your System
Use the following instructions to restore files from a floppy diskette to your
system:
1 Load the floppy diskette into the disk drive.
2 In a terminal window, use the cd command to change to the directory you want
the files to reside in:
cd directory_path
where directory_path is the pathname of the directory.