Specifications

NSTS 21000-IDD-760XD

8.0 MISCELLANEOUS

8.1 APPROVED FLOPPY DISKS

The Customer is responsible for providing floppy disks needed to support their payload. The

following floppy disks have been tested and approved for flight:

• 3M Micro Diskettes, 3.5” double-sided, high density, 2.0 MB, manual part number 051111-

12513

• Dysan Micro Floppy Disks, 3.5” double-sided, high density, 2.0 MB manual part number

814937-01

Approved labels are as follows:

• Avery Diskette Laser Labels, 3.5” diskette laser labels, blue, manual part number 5896

• Fasson double-sided adhesive film, manual part number 489

• Xerox paper, 8.5” x 11” and 8.5” x 14”, white, type 4200, manual part number 3R721

8.2 APPROVED WRITABLE CDs

The Customer is responsible for providing CDs needed to support their payload. The following

CD-ROMs have been tested and materially approved for flight:

• Verbatim P/N 91226

• Memorex P/N 3202-3404

• Sony P/N CDQ-74BN

• Eastman Kodak P/N 8670028

8.3 CD GENERATION PROCEDURES

Significant difficulty has been encountered using the ThinkPad 760XD with the 8X CD-ROM

drive when reading CDs that had been burned in-house. Many CDs could not be read at all,

while others would work on one machine, but not on another. To understand the cause,

testing was performed with variation made to the blank CD-ROM brand, burning software,

burning speed, and computer/burner platform.

The results indicate that the software used and the speed of the burning process are the most

significant factors. The only CDs that were successfully read by all tested machines were

written at single (1X) speed. Therefore, the POCCB strongly recommends that all CDs to be

used on orbit be burned at single (1X) speed. Also, either HyCD version 1.2, or Adaptec Direct

CD version 2.5a CD-ROM writing software should be used.