Siemens PC 670 manual Drives, Floppy disk drive, 2 LS240 drive, Disk types

Release 04/02 Connecting and Switching on the Computing Unit

3.5Drives

The computing unit is equipped with a 3.5” floppy disk drive or LS 240 drive and a 3.5” hard disk drive as standard equipment.

3.5.1Floppy disk drive

The floppy disk drive can be used to store programs and data on disks and load them from disk into the computing unit.

Disk types

The following disks can be used:

double sided double	double sided high density	LS240 superdisks
density diskettes	diskettes
3.5 inch	3.5 inch	3.5 inch
720 Kbyte	1.44 Mbyte (135 TPI)	120 MB

Caution

!Caution: This could result in loss of data!

The eject button must never be pressed while the green LED drive lamp is on.

3.5.2LS240 drive

As an alternative to a floppy disk drive, the computing unit can be equipped with an LS240 drive for customized solutions.

The LS240 can save larger amounts of data on data media than a 1.44 MB floppy disk drive. The LS240 drive has the following characteristics:

–is compatible with 1.44 MB floppy disk and LS120 drives, i.e. 1.44 MB and 120 Mbyte disks can be used,·

–the maximum data capacity is 240 Mbyte using a LS240 data medium,

–the LS240 drive is connected via an ATAPI(IDE) interface.

Panel PC 670 Computing Unit, Equipment Manual 3-13