1.4 Removable Drives

1 Hardware Overview

1.4Removable Drives

The module compartments can accommodate the following removable modules:

Battery pack

Secondary hard disk drive

TV tuner

Floppy disk drive

DVD-R/-RW drive

DVD-ROM drive

DVD multi-drive drive

Combo drive

1.4.13.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive

The 3.5-inch FDD is a thin, high-performance reliable drive that supports 720KB (formatted) 2DD and 1.44MB (formatted) 2HD disks. The specifications for the FDD are listed in the table below.

Item

2MB mode

1MB mode

 

 

 

Storage capacity (KB)

 

 

Unformatted

2,000

1,000

Formatted

1,440

720

Number of heads

2

2

 

 

 

Number of cylinders

80

80

 

 

 

Recording method

Modified Frequency Modulation (MFM)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Toshiba P25 manual Removable Drives Hardware Overview, 1 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive