AIX Tip of the Week

Working with Diskettes in AIX

Audience: AIX Users

Date: January 7, 2000

The following is a list of the most common commands for reading floppy diskettes in AIX.

Diskette Format

Command to View Diskette

Comments

PC DOS

dosdir -l

Part of the "bos.dosutil" package in AIX.

Related commands: dosread, doswrite, dosdel, dosformat

Unix

tar -tvf /dev/rfd0

 

Unix

restore -Tvq

Diskettes created with the AIX backup command

Unix

cpio -itv </dev/rfd0

 
     

 

See the AIX documentation at http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/library for using these commands to read/write to diskettes.