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Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
This section describes how to perform tasks with your 3.5-inch floppy
disk drive.
Floppy Disk Drive
The floppy disk drive is a random access read/write mass storage device
that uses removable floppy diskettes. The drive supports the 1.44 Mbyte
High Density standard. You can access information from the drive like
any other disk drive, that is you can write information to it and read
information from it.
Controls and Features
Figure 3-1 and Table 3-1 describe the operating controls and features of
the floppy disk drive.
Figure 3-1 Floppy Disk Drive Controls and Features
Table 3-1 Floppy Disk Drive Operating Controls and Features
Control/Feature Purpose
Busy Indicator The Busy Indicator illuminates during a data
access operation and blinks during a data
transfer.
Eject Button The Eject Button, when pressed, ejects the
floppy diskette from the floppy disk drive.
Eject ButtonBusy Indicator