There are a number of SCSI floppy disk drives available for use with your system. To install a floppy disk drive on an IRIX system, follow the hardware documentation that is furnished with your drive to connect it to the computer.
If you are adding a floppy disk drive to a system that does not have one, the software configuration is taken care of automatically when the system boots. When the system boots, if hinv indicates that a floppy disk drive is installed but that there is no link to it through the /dev special device files, the MAKEDEV program is automatically invoked to add the proper device files. For more information on the MAKEDEV program, refer to IRIX Admin: Disks and Filesystems.
If you are installing a floppy disk drive after your initial system installation, perform the following steps:
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV floppy
The MAKEDEV program creates the appropriate device nodes.
If you have removed a floppy disk drive and are installing one of a different type, follow these steps:
cd /dev/rdsk
rm fds*
./MAKEDEV floppy
The MAKEDEV program creates the appropriate device nodes according the SCSI controller, floppy disk drive number, and type of floppy disk drive. For example, a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive configured as drive 2 on SCSI controller 0 has the device node
/dev/rdsk/fds0d2.3.5
There are various options for the different kinds of floppy disk drives that are supported. For example, your device node could use any of the following options, depending on which option suits the hardware you are installing:
ln -s /dev/rdsk/fds0d2.3.5 /dev/floppy