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The floppy user guide Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de) Alain Knaff (alain@linux.lu) David C. Niemi (niemi@) ABSTRACT This document1 is intended for people interested in details about floppy drives, e.g. the in- terface bus, data recording, logical structure of data on the floppy and more. The connec- tion to Linux is made where applicable to show how floppies from other computers can be accessed or how and why it is possible to put more data on a floppy. Since they use the same interface, there is also a small section about floppy tape streamers. June 11th, 2001 1. The unmodified version of this document may be distributed without charge, both as roff source or as formatted or printed manual. 1. Floppy drive sizes Inside the case is the floppy disk, a round plastic foil coated with a material containing metal oxide, which can be magnetised to store information. The case has multiple openings. The bigger hole in the middle allows the drive motor to spin the floppy clockwise. Old floppy drives use a DC-motor with a variable resistor to adjust the speed. They often have a stroboscope ring on their bottom for that purpose. Modern drives hav e brushless motors. The big disk on the bottom contains permanent magnets and is controlled by an SIL-IC with a heat pipe and connections to coils under the disk. This unit is controlled with a crystal or ceramics resonator. If you want to change the drive speed, adjusting the variable resistor works for older drives, but not for newer ones. On those, you will nee