Note: In this chapter, the term floppy disk drive also applies to a floptical drive since both are configured and used in the same manner. Filesystems on floppy disk drives are controlled by the mediad daemon. mediad monitors a given floppy disk drive, waiting for a disk to be inserted. If your system is running the objectserver, floppy disk drives are mounted on /floppy if the disk is in FAT (MS-DOS) or HFS (Macintosh) format. If you have more than one floppy disk drive, floppy disks in additional drives are automatically mounted on /floppy2, /floppy3, and so on. If your system is not running objectserver, you must provide a location for the mount point. See the mediad(1M) reference page for complete information. When you are through using the floppy disk, issue the eject command, and mediad attempts to unmount the filesystem. If the unmount is successful, it ejects the floppy disk immediately.
If you are not running the objectserver and you wish to start mediad for a high-density floppy disk drive with SCSI identifier 7 and the mount point /floppy, use this command:
This command gives instructions for the floppy disk drive to be monitored and provides a location to mount its filesystem. You must also have created the mount point and ensured that the directory permissions are set appropriately (777 is usually required for read-write filesystems).mediad -ip /dev/rdsk/fds0d7.3.5hi /floppy