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Figure 3-3 Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive Operating the Floppy Drive Inserting and Removing a Diskette Follow these steps to insert and remove a diskette from the floppy disk drive. 1. Insert the diskette into the drive, as shown in Figure 3-3. Inserting and Removing a Floppy Diskette NOTE 2. Push the diskette into the floppy drive until it clicks into place. 3. Remove the diskette by pressing the eject button (see Figure 3-1) and taking it out of the drive. Using Device Files Device files are special files that tell your system which pathway through the system hardware to use when communicating with a specific device. Device files also describe the type of device. You will need to know the special device file associated with your floppy disk drive so that you can write data to it or read data from it. The device file names depend on the naming conventions of your particular system. Chapter 3 71

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Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
Inserting and Removing a Diskette
Follow these steps to insert and remove a diskette from the floppy disk
drive.
1.
Insert the diskette into the drive, as shown in Figure 3-3.
Figure 3-3
Inserting and Removing a Floppy Diskette
2.
Push the diskette into the floppy drive until it clicks into place.
3.
Remove the diskette by pressing the eject button (see Figure 3-1) and
taking it out of the drive.
Using Device Files
Device files are special files that tell your system which pathway through
the system hardware to use when communicating with a specific device.
Device files also describe the type of device. You will need to know the
special device file associated with your floppy disk drive so that you can
write data to it or read data from it.
NOTE
The
device
file
names
depend
on
the
naming
conventions
of
your
particular system.