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Floppy disks use a FAT file system.
Under Windows, a floppy drive is always formatted using the FAT 12 file system.
The official designation is 346.0168.
IBM invented the floppy about 1971 for loading microcode into their System/370 computers.
Boot Disk or Boot Floppy
A floppy drive in your computer and an operating system capable of reading it.
The CEF designation can be changed by going to the main internal system design and rellocating the internal system to reaccomodate the necessary tools.
It makes it much easier to copy a floppy disk.
The best way to disable a floppy disk drive is to disable the floppy interface from the system BIOS. This should remove all traces of the floppy disk drive to the operating system. It is also easier to reverse should the disk need to be enabled again later,
FAT12
Normally a floppy drive interface can be used to connect two floppy disk drives. However this may vary from system to system, some systems may also have two interfaces. It may be necessary to purchase a floppy drive cable with two connection headers.
The similarities depend on the platform. But generally the only similarity is they are drives in a drive letter access system. On Wintel machines that had them back in the day, A was the designation for floppy drives and C was the designation for the first hard disk. Keep in mind that how a drive is actually exposed to the user is entirely up to the operating system. While Windows will have an A: C: D: drive, etc. Linux allows access to them by mounting their device files right on the directory tree and there ARE no drive letters. For example, a floppy drive is likely going to be /dev/fd0. One can insert the disk, then as root: mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy (Assuming there is a directory /media/floppy.). Then you can just change to that directory using a shell or file manager and access it as if it were just any other subdirectory on your filesystem. Today floppy drives are nearly extinct. The high dendity floppies we had just a decade ago just plain don't have the capacity to be useful, and with DVD-RW and flash media being the standard removable media there's no motivation to create a "new floppy."