How to open a floppy in SCO UNIX?

UNIX SCO
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Hi,

Please help me to find the command to open a floppy disc 3.5" in Sco Unix Open Server 5.0.6 environment. Device located in dev/fd0.

thanks in advance
Rukshan

2

Did you try to mount it?

3

It's been many years since I used SCO in anger.

However, from what I remember it would be like:

mount /dev/fd0135ds18 /mnt

to mount the floppy under /mnt

Therefore, after mounting, the contents of the floppy should appear in /mnt

4

First use the 'dtype' command to determine the type of disk.
If the disk is a tar or cpio disk then you do not need to mount it in order to read the contents.
You can look at /etc/default/tar for a list of specific disk types.
tar xv6 extracts tar files from a 1.44mb floppy in drive 0.

If it is a unix1k file system, then you need to mount it using
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt

5

mountable most likely would be ds18.

I create a mount point called fd0 on root so that addressing it is at fd0.

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@edfair......yes, of course, you are correct. Should be ds18. I've now edited my post#3. Thanks.
(It's been so long since I used SCO it's difficult to remember.)

Therefore.....

dtype /dev/fd0135ds18

should tell you the floppy type: filesystem, cpio or tar

and

mount /dev/fd0135ds18 /mnt

should mount it if it is type filesystem.

/dev/fd0 may well be able to be used instead of /dev/fd0135ds18 if the system is configured that way.