How can a user access a dos-format disk in Solaris?

First the user needs to use the volume management utility “volcheck”. This causes the Solaris to poll disk drives. The disk drives are not polled automatically in Solaris. By typing in mount in the command line the user would get the following output:

/floppy/unnamed_floppy on /vol/dev/diskette0/unnamed_floppy read/write on Wed Jan 20 09:05:44 1999

In case, the user wants to unmount using the volume management utility the user needs to type in eject. Another way to mount the disk drive is by using the mount option. The command for mounting a disk drive is:

mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /mnt

Prior to using this command the user needs to stop the volume management utility. This can be done by : "/etc/init.d/volmgt stop". If the volume manager is not stopped before mounting the user will get the device busy error. In case, the user wants to restart the volume manager utility the user needs to use the command : "/etc/init.d/volmgt start"