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 3.5-inch floppy disk drive.

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 3-1and Table 3-1describe the operating controls and features of the floppy disk drive.

Figure 3-1

Floppy Disk Drive Controls and Features

 

Busy Indicator

Eject Button

Table 3-1

Floppy Disk Drive Operating Controls and Features

 

 

 

 

Control/Feature

Purpose

 

 

 

 

Busy Indicator

The Busy Indicator illuminates during a data

 

 

access operation and blinks during a data

 

 

transfer.

 

 

 

 

Eject Button

The Eject Button, when pressed, ejects the

 

 

floppy diskette from the floppy disk drive.

 

 

 

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