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,
1.2MB (formatted) 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.
Items
Data transfer
rate
Disk rotation speed
Track density
1-18
Figure 1-4 3.5-inch FDD (USB External)
Table 1-1 3.5-inch FDD specifications
720KB mode
FDD part
250K bits/second
USB
300rpm
1.3 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive (USB External)
1.2MB mode
500K bits/second
Full speed mode (12M bits/second)
360rpm
5.3 track/mm (135TPI)
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1.44MB mode
300rpm