Casio FD-1 - About Floppy Diskettes

About Floppy Diskettes
This section explains precautions you need to follow when
using floppy diskettes. It also contains other basic informa-
tion about diskettes.
Floppy Diskette Handling Precautions
IMPORTANT!
¢ Keep diskettes away from televisions, stereos, and other
sources of magnetism. Magnetism can affect diskette con-
tents.
¢ Keep diskettes out of direct sunlight, and areas subjected
to high humidity and temperature extremes.
© Never try to take a diskette apart.
* Never apen the shutter of a diskette or touch the inside
with your fingers.
¢ Never bend a diskette or apply strong pressure to it.
° Make vou affix diskette labels only within the areas pro-
vided, and never affix a new label on top of an old one.
¢ Do not eject the diskette while the access lamp is lit or while
playback is in progress. Also, never tuen off power while a
diskette is loaded inside the FD-1. Doing so can corrupt
data on the diskette and cause malfunction of the FD-1.
® Never insert any other object besides the specified type of
diskette into the FD-1. Doing so can cause malfunction of
the FD-1.
* The FD-1 uses a magnetic head. A dirty head can make it
impossible to read data from a diskette or even corrupt dis-
kette contents. Use a commercially available cleaning dis-
kette to periodically clean the magnetic head.
* CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD. assumes no responsi-
bility for the loss of any data stored on a floppy dis- ~
kette.
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Diskette Types
The FD-1 supports use of both 3.5" 2HD (1.44MB formatted)
and 2DD (720KB formatted) diskettes. Use of other disk siz-
es and capacities is not supported.
Diskette Type Indicators
2HD ... A 2HD diskette is marked with the letters “HD” in
the upper right corner of the front side, Also, there is
a square hole in the lower right corner.
2DD..... This type of diskette does not have a hole in the low-
er right corner.
Write Protection
You can write protect a diskette so data on it cannot be delet-
ed and no new data can be stored on the diskette.
IMPORTANT!
¢ Though you can read data from a diskette that is write pro-
tected (write protect hole open), you cannot store data on
it, delete its existing data, or format the diskette. Write pro-
tecting a diskette is a good way to protect important data
against accidental deletion.
Write enabled
(hole blocked with tab)
Data save, data delete,
disk formatting are all
enabled.
Write protect
(hole open)
Hole open
Write protect tab
When the write protect hole is open as shown jn the illus-
tration, you can read the contents of the diskette, but you
cannot write data to or delete data from the diskette. After
saving important data to a diskette, be sure tu open its write
protect hole to protect the data against accidental changes
or deletion.
The diskette that comes with the FD-1 contains sample data
and so it is write protected.
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