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From: joseph@hpuplca.HP.COM (	Joseph Hohl )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP-IB floppy drive on 9000/834
Message-ID: <410023@hpuplca.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 90 22:34:23 GMT
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> / hpuplca:comp.sys.hp / corrigan@weber.ucsd.edu (Michael J. Corrigan) / 
> 
> 	I have an HP 9122C floppy disk drive on an HP-IB card on a 9000/834 
> 
>     5. What now ?? I would like to use this thing to transfer files
>      to and from DOS machines.  Can I use it for this purpose ??
> Thanks.
> 
> Mike Corrigan
> corrigan@ucsd.edu
> ----------

Use the DOS utililities provided with HP-UX (dosls, doscp, dosrm etc...)
to access dos files on the floppy using /dev/rfd/c1d0s2.  There isn't a
dosmediainit available on HP-UX so just initialize floppies on a DOS
machine.

Joseph