Drives; Floppy Disk Drive; Ls240 Drive - Siemens SIMATIC PC 670 Equipment Manual

Release 04/02
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Drives

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.
3.5.1

Floppy 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
density diskettes
3.5 inch
720 Kbyte
Caution
!
Caution: This could result in loss of data!
The eject button must never be pressed while the green LED drive lamp is on.
3.5.2

LS240 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
Connecting and Switching on the Computing Unit
double sided high density
diskettes
3.5 inch
1.44 Mbyte (135 TPI)
LS240 superdisks
3.5 inch
120 MB
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