Use advanced search. Seeking Assistance How to use Tar and Cpio Floppies Purdue Engineering Computer Network Solaris provides a new tool called the Volume Manager which replaces the special commands cdmount,dosmount,fdmount,mountcd, and mountfd . The Volume Manager automatically detects when a CD-ROM or floppy disk has been inserted into the drive, and mounts it automatically. On many Sun hardware platforms, it is not possible to automatically detect the presence of a floppy disk in the drive. If the Volume Manager does not appear to mount your floppy disk, execute the volcheck command, which will tell the Volume Manager to go look for a disk in the disk drive.
Many people use the tar and cpio commands to read and write files on floppy disks.
Under Volume Manager however, a new device name must be used. Please ask us . Copyright 2001 Purdue University. All rights reserved.