Olivetti M24 - Removing a Diskette; Drive Identifiers

1. Open the drive cover. Depending on the type of diskette drive(s)
installed in your system, the drive cover is opened either by pushing
a lever, or by pushing the cover upwards.
2. Insert the diskette into the slot with its label facing upward and out-
ward, as shown in Figure 3-3.
3. Push the diskette gently into the drive, until you feel it settle into
position. Don't attempt to force it; if it won't go easily, withdraw the
diskette and re-insert it.
4. When the diskette has settled into position, close the drive cover.
REMOVING A DISKETTE
To remove a diskette, open the drive cover. This automatically pushes
the diskette out of the drive so that it can be removed.
A diskette can safely be removed with the system turned on or off. That
makes no difference. It is extremely important, however, that you
NEVER remove a diskette while it is being accessed by the system
-- read from or written to. Doing so will cause, at best, an error condi-
tion; at worst, it will destroy the information on the diskette.
You can tell if a diskette is being accessed by looking at the indicator
light of the drive it is in. If its indicator light is on, don't remove the
diskette (see Figure 3-3).
DRIVE IDENTIFIERS
To read information from, or write information to, a diskette you must
specify the drive in which the diskette is loaded. To specify the drive,
you use a "drive identifier ". The form of the drive identifier depends
on the operating system being used. With MS-DOS and Concurrent
CP/M-86 alphabetic identifiers are used:
• The lower diskette drive is drive A.
• The upper diskette drive, if present, is drive B.
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