User Guide

1-8 100CS
1.3 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive
The 3.5-inch FDD is a thin, high-performance reliable drive that supports 720-KB (formatted)
2DD and 1.44-MB (formatted) 2HD 3.5-inch floppy disks.
The FDD is shown in figure 1-4.
Figure 1-4 3.5-inch FDD
The specifications for the FDD are listed in table 1-1.
Table 1-1 3.5-inch FDD specifications
Item 2-MB mode 1-MB mode
Storage capacity (KB)
Unformatted 2,000 *1 1,000 *2
Formatted 1,311 655
Number of heads 2 2
Number of cylinders 80 80
Access time (ms)
Track to track 3 3
Average 181 181
Head settling time 15 15
Recording track density (tpi) 135 135
Data transfer rate (Kbps) 500 250
Rotation speed (rpm) 300 300
Recording method Modified Frequency Modulation (MFM)
*1:32 sector/track (256bytes per sector)
*2:16 sector/track (256bytes per sector)