Floppy Drive Troubleshooting英文文献.pdf

99 0789729741 DVD 3.01 06•09•2003 1:45 PM Page 1 Floppy Disk Technologies and Information 99 0789729741 DVD 3.01 06•09•2003 1:45 PM Page 2 2 Floppy Disk Technologies and Information Obsolete Floppy Drive Types The following sections detail floppy disk drive technologies that are now obsolete. 5 1/4 Floppy Disk Construction When you look at a typical 5 1/4 floppy disk, you see several things, as shown in Figure 1. Most prominent is the large, round hole in the center. When you close the disk drive’s “door,” a cone- shaped clamp grabs and centers the disk through the center hole. Many disks come with hub-ring reinforcements—thin, plastic rings that help the disk withstand the mechanical forces of the clamping mechanism. HD disks usually lack these reinforcements because the difficulty in accurately placing them on the disk means they can cause alignment problems. On the right side, just below the center of the hub hole, is a smaller round hole called the index hole. If you carefully turn the disk within its protective jacket, you can see a small hole in the disk itself. The drive uses the index hole as the starting point for all the sectors on the disk—sort of the “prime meridian” for the disk sectors. A disk with a single index hole is a soft-sectored disk; the software (operating system) decides the actual number of sectors on the disk. Some older equipment, such as Wang word processors, use hard-sectored disks, which have an index hole to demarca