Drives With Interchangeable Media - Siemens SIMATIC Panel PC 870 Equipment Manual

Release 11/02
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 computer unit.
Floppy disk drive
Figure 3-3
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 3-4 Diskette handling
The access light is lit when an access to the drive is carried out.
SIMATIC Panel PC 870 Computing Unit, Equipment Manual
Floppy disk drive
Ejector
Connecting and Operating the Computing Unit
Ejector
Access light
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