Welcome to the SIMATIC Box PC 620

2.6Drives

The Box PC is equipped as standard with a 3.5” disk drive or an LS240 drive and a 3.5” hard disk drive.

2.6.1Disk Drive (Depending on the Device Configuration)

You can store programs and data on diskettes with the disk drive and load them from diskettes into the Box PC.

Types of Diskette

You can use following diskettes:

double sided double

double sided high density

LS240-Superdisks

density diskette

diskette

 

 

 

 

3,5 inch

3,5 inch

3,5 inch

 

 

 

720 Kbytes

1,44 Mbytes (135 TPI)

120 Mbytes

 

 

 

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Caution

Risk of loss of data!

When the green access LED of the floppy disk drive is lit, the ejector may not be actuated.

2.6.2LS 240 Drive (Depending on Device Configuration)

The Box PC can be equipped with an LS 240 drive as an alternative to a floppy disk drive.

Larger volumes of data can be stored on LS 240 data carriers than on a

1.44MB floppy disk drive. The LS 240 has the following features:

it is compatible with a 1.44 MB floppy disk drive, i.e. 1.44 MB or 120 MB disks can also be processed.

an LS 240 data carrier has a maximum data volume of 240 Mbytes.

the LS 240 drive is connected via an ATAPI (IDE) port.

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SIMATIC Box PC 620 Manual

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Siemens 620 Drives, Disk Drive Depending on the Device Configuration, 2 LS 240 Drive Depending on Device Configuration