Texas Microsystems, Inc. 2003 - Floppy Disk Drives; Compatibility Guidelines

tg~m~~~~g, any data that was recorded on
the disk/diskette is ERASED. Use the
£ormat procedure care£ully.
3. Type: Y to £ormat the hard disk. During this
process, the £ollowing message is displayed:
"Foraatting • •
"
4. The £ormatting process takes about 3 minutes. A
message is displayed indicating that formatting is
completed and showing the amount o£ available disk
space.
5. Type in. the desired volume label (11 characters).
This label is be noted each time the drive C
directory is displayed. Enter the label td be
used and press ENTER.
The hard disk is ready to accept data. Because DOS
system £iles reside on the hard disk the computer can
now be started £rom drive C.
3.3 Floppy Disk Drives
Three types o£ floppy disk drives are available as
options with the 2000 Series AT computers.
The 1.2M byte high capacity drive stores data on 5.25-
inch high capacity diskettes.
The 360K
data on
diskettes.
byte drive is a double sided drive and stores
5-1/4 inch double sided, double density
The 720K byte drive is designed £or 3.5-inch diskettes
and requires DOS versions 3.2 or greater. This drive
is compatible with the International Business Machines
Laptop computer.
3.3.1 Compatibility Guidelines
Floppy diskette and disk drive capacities must be
compatible or reading and writing data can be distorted
and, in some cases, not possible. Diskettes can either
be single sided, double sided, or high capacity and
each has a different st9rage capability:
1.
Single Sided diskette
Double Sided diskette
High Capacity diskette
The 1.2M
requires
byte high capacity
high capacity
Preliminary AT Users Manual
160/180K bytes
320/360K bytes
1.2M bytes -AT only
floppy disk drive
or diskettes £or
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