Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
This section describes how to perform tasks with your
Floppy Disk Drive
The floppy disk drive is a random access read/write mass storage device that uses removable floppy diskettes. The drive supports the 1.44 Mbyte High Density standard. You can access information from the drive like any other disk drive, that is you can write information to it and read information from it.
Controls and Features
Figure 3-1 and Table 3-1 describe the operating controls and features of the floppy disk drive.
Figure | Floppy Disk Drive Controls and Features |
| Busy Indicator | Eject Button |
Table | Floppy Disk Drive Operating Controls and Features | |
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| Busy Indicator | The Busy Indicator illuminates during a data |
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| access operation and blinks during a data |
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| transfer. |
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| Eject Button | The Eject Button, when pressed, ejects the |
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| floppy diskette from the floppy disk drive. |
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