1.4 Removable Drives
1.4
Removable Drives
The module compartments can accommodate the following removable modules:
• Battery pack
• Secondary hard disk drive
• TV tuner
• Floppy disk drive
• DVD-R/-RW drive
• DVD-ROM drive
• DVD multi-drive drive
• Combo drive
1.4.1 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive
The 3.5-inch FDD is a thin, high-performance reliable drive that supports 720KB (formatted)
2DD and 1.44MB (formatted) 2HD disks. The specifications for the FDD are listed in the
table below.
Storage capacity (KB)
Unformatted
Formatted
Number of heads
Number of cylinders
Recording method
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Modified Frequency Modulation (MFM)
2MB mode
1MB mode
2,000
1,440
2
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1,000
720
2
80
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