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W hat is a fl
oppy disk ?
Afloppy disk, ordiskette,
is adisk storagemedium
composed of a disk of
thin and flexiblemagnetic
storagemedium, sealed
in a rectangular plastic
carrier lined with fabric
that removes dust
particles. They are read
and written by afloppy
disk drive(FDD).
megabytesof data.
Zip Drive
Zip drives were introduced by the
Floppy Disk
Type
Capacity
Info
SS/SD or 1S/1D
Single Sided,
Single Density
100 K
First
generation.
Capacity
varies
SS/DD or
1S/2D
5-1/4 inch
Single Sided,
Double
Density
180 K
DD/DD or
2D/2D
5-1/4 inch
Double Sided,
Double
Density
360 K
DD/HD or
2D/HD
5-1/4 inch
Double Sided,
High Density
1.2 Mb
DD
720 K
Most common
type in the
early 1980's
Hard plastic
case
Tandy, Memorex,
Dysan, MicroUniversal,
BASF, Datam,
Verbatim(Datalife), 3M,
Fuji Film, Janus,
Maxell, Highland, NEC,
Albinar, Businessland,
Kodak, IBM, Sony,
Precision, Packard
Bell, and others.
Floppy D isk :
electromagnetic.
Head contacts much closer compared to HDD
due to low rpm [300 rpm]
3.5 Floppy disk has only 80 tracks per side so the
actuator doesnt need to be much precise as
HDD.
Unlike HDD, FDD has 3 heads :
One is Read/Write head
And other two is tunnel erase head to clean up after
2)
3)
4)
5)
Recording
Surface
Sending Signals
From the Circuit
Board
Checking for
Write Protection
Positioning the
Read/Write
Heads
Writing the Data
Floppy connectors :