ITEM: V3248L

Bypass naming convention; create a dummy diskette drive

Question:

Env:    3.2.5.

Desc:   The customer once had his diskette drive defined as "fd1".  After
        restoring from a mksysb, his scripts that write to the diskette
        drive no longer work because his diskette drive is now defined as
        "fd0".  Is it possible to skip the numbering sequence, or to
        create a dummy floppy diskette drive with device name fd0 so that
        the actual one will appear as fd1?

Action: First remove the device:
        \# rmdev -dl fd0

        Use the "-l" option to name the device:
        \# mkdev -l fd1 -c diskette -s siofd -t fd -p fda0 -w '0'

        This will assign it whatever name you want.  However, the
        following step will create a dummy entry:

        Remove the entry for the diskette drive:
        \# rmdev -dl fd0

        Created a dummy ODM entry for fd0:
        \# mkdev -d -c diskette -s siofd -t fd -p fda0 -w '1'

        Configured the real diskette drive
        \# cfgmgr

Next:   Close.



Support Line: Bypass naming convention; create a dummy diskette drive ITEM: V3248L

Dated: July 1995 Category: N/A

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