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Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
This section describes how to perform tasks with your 3.5-inch floppy disk
drive.
Verifying the Floppy Drive Configuration
To verify that your workstation can communicate with the floppy drive, use
the ioscan command to see which devices are currently in use on your sys-
tem.
1 Enter the following at a command prompt:
/sbin/ioscan
After a few moments the ioscan utility lists all of the I/O devices it could find. If
there is a floppy drive in the list, that listing appears similar to the following:
H/W Path Class Description
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8 bc I/O Adapter
8/0 graphics Graphics
8/16/10 pc Built-in Floppy Drive