1.3 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive 1 Hardware Overview
1.3 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive (USB External) The 3.5-inch FDD is a thin, high-performance reliable drive that supports 720KB (formatted)
2DD and 1.44MB (formatted) 2HD disks.
The FDD is shown in figure 1-4. The specifications for the FDD are listed in Table 1-1.
Figure 1-4 3.5-inch FDD (USB External)
Table 1-1 3.5-inch FDD specifications
Items 720KB mode 1.44MB mode
FDD part 250K bits/second 500K bits/second Data transfer rate
USB Full speed mode (12M bits/second)
Disk rotation speed 300rpm
Track density 5.3 track/mm (135TPI)
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