Floppy Disks - Atari Faicon030 Owner's Manual

The Falcon030 is available with an optional internal hard disk, which is ready to
work, as soon as you boot up the system.
The hard disk is divided into partitions, which appear on the desktop as drive
icons (See Desktop Elements
GEM-Desktop, for more information on drive icons.) Partitions store
information independently although they are not physically separate devices.

Floppy Disks

Floppy disks store programs and the information you create (data). Floppy disks
store different amounts of data depending on the type of floppy disk; single-sided
floppy disks store 357,376 bytes, double-sided floppy disks store 726,0 1 6 bytes,
and high-density floppy disks store 1 ,458, 1 76 bytes of data. Information on a
floppy disk is read from the disk into RAM, modified if desired, and later saved
back to the disk from R A M .
Your computer's 3.5 inch l .44M B drive uses 3 .5 inch high-density, double
density, or single-sided diskettes. Each diskette consists of a 3.5 inch rectangular
plastic casing holding a circu l ar sheet (disk) of coated material. This material is
the magnetic media which holds the data read by the disk drive. Its accessibl e
section is protected by a sliding metal s l eeve. Most floppy disks also have a
write-protect sliding tab. (For inform ation on floppy disks, see
Drive l ater in this chapter.)
CD-ROM Discs
CD-ROM discs store information that can be read into R A M for processing.
Because C D-ROM disks use a read-onl y format, you c annot write any additional
data onto a CD-ROM disc.
in Part Using the Desktop, Chapter 3, The
II:
Using Your Computer
Part I: Getting Started
The Floppy Disk
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