T4900CT
1.3 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive
The T4900CT 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive (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 T4900CT FDD is shown in figure 1-4. The specifications for the FDD are described in
table 1-1.
Figure 1-4 3.5-inch FDD
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 94 94
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)