1-8 420 Series
1.3 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive
The 420 series 3.5-inch removable FDD is a thin, high-performance reliable drive that sup-
ports 720-KB (formatted) 2DD and 1.44-MB (formatted) 2HD disks. When a CD-ROM is
installed in the Selectable Bay, an FDD attachment can be used to connect the FDD to an
external FDD port.
The 420 series 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 1,000
Formatted 1,475 737
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)
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