Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

Starting Removable Media Manager

To open the Removable Media Manager:

When Removable Media Manager starts, it displays all media currently loaded into the drives. The different forms of devices are represented by icons and are unlimited. For example, if a machine has three drives loaded with diskettes, three diskette icons are displayed. The icon view updates each time a device is inserted or ejected. Each class of media is represented by a different icon.

You can select one or more devices and perform operations on them. A device is displayed with a nickname (cdrom0), an optional volume name (ssa_2_1_sparc), and an optional partition or slice number (s1).


Note –

In order to have the Removable Media Manager recognize a diskette, you must choose Open Floppy from one of the following: