Toshiba M1 User Manual

1 Hardware Overview

1.3 3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive (USB External)

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1.3

3.5-inch Floppy Disk Drive (USB External)

The 3.5-inch FDD is a thin, high-performance reliable drive that supports 720KB (formatted) 2DD,
1.2MB (formatted) and 1.44MB (formatted) 2HD disks.

The FDD is shown in figure 1-4. The specifications for the FDD are listed in Table 1-1.

Figure 1-4 3.5-inch FDD (USB External)

Table 1-1 3.5-inch FDD specifications

Items

720KB mode

1.2MB mode

1.44MB mode

FDD part

250K bits/second

500K bits/second

Data transfer

rate

USB

Full speed mode (12M bits/second)

Disk rotation speed

300rpm

360rpm

300rpm

Track density

5.3 track/mm (135TPI)