Drives With Interchangeable Media; Floppy Disk Drive - Siemens SIMATIC Panel PC 870 Equipment Manual

Connecting and Operating the Computing Unit
3.3

Drives with interchangeable media

3.3.1

Floppy disk drive

With the floppy disk drive, you can save programs and data on floppy disks and
load from floppy disks into the computing unit.
Floppy disk drive
Figure 3-5 Floppy disk drive
Floppy disk types
With the floppy disk drive, you can use the following floppy disks:
Double Sided High Density, 3.5 in., 1.44 MB (135TPI).
Floppy disk handling with floppy disk drive
Insert the floppy disks into the drive as illustrated, depending on the installation
location:
Access light
Figure 3-6 Diskette handling
The access light is lit when an access to the drive is carried out.
Caution
Loss of data!
Do not actuate the ejector when the green access LED of the drive is lit.
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Ejector
Panel PC 870 Computing Unit Equipment Manual
Ejector
Access light
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