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In the read write head mechanism of a floppy drive how many heads are attached at the end of an actuator arm that freely moves over the surface of the disk?
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How many heads are in a floppy drive actuator?
There are two heads on a floppy drive actuator.
Is there an adapter to connect a floppy drive to parallel?
There are external floppy drives that can be attached to a computer via the parallel port. I am unaware of any standalone adapter that would allow you to adapt an existing drive.
A hard drive or floppy disk is composed of tracks which are concentric circles on the disk surface?
true
How the working of floppy disk drive differ from hard disk drive?
The head(s) in floppy drives make physical contact with the floppy disk surface, while the heads in hard disk drives fly over the hard disk surface on a cushion of air created by the platter rotation speed. All other features of the devices are similar.
Rank these storage methods in order of their storage capacity DVD floppy disk CD-ROM tape?
Tape (up to 800GB, ex. DAT 160), DVD (4.7 - 17.08 GB), CD (up to 700MB) , Floppy Disk (ave. 1.44MB)
The process of writing and reading to a hard or floppy disk is done with?
The actual read and write process is done via the read/write heads. The head is a very small coil of wire with a tidy metal core in the centre, the coil is coated in plastic and mounted on the end of a thin metal arm. The arm moves the coil across the disk between the inner and outer track to access different parts of the disk surface. Floppy disks have just one recording surface, Hard disks save several recording surfaces, usually two or four but on large drives may be up to 16. Each surface has its own read/write head, all the heads move at the same time as all the arms are driven by one actuator which moves them around. With floppy disks the heads usually just touch the disk surface. Hard drives spin much faster and the heads skim just off the surface, separation is maintained by a cushion of air created by the design of the plastic head body - it works a little like an aircraft wing.
How did Easter get his name?
=floppy bunnies==floppy bunnies==floppy bunnies=
What is a floppy dics?
what is a floppy disc
Does the read write heads on a hard disk drive actually touch the surface of the disk?
no, the head not touching the surface of the hard disk. If it touch the great chance of data may be lost. only the head of floppy disk is touch the surface of the disk.
How does floppy disk write protection work?
in a floppy drive, a small pin hits the area where that little switch is on the floppy. if it passes through, the floppy drive detects the floppy as write/read. it it doesn't pass through, the floppy drive detects the floppy as read only
What is floppy disk slot?
a floppy disk slot is what you put the floppy disk in on a CPU
The process of reading and writing to a hard or floppy disk is done with what?
The actual read and write process is done via the read/write heads. The head is a very small coil of wire with a tidy metal core in the centre, the coil is coated in plastic and mounted on the end of a thin metal arm. The arm moves the coil across the disk between the inner and outer track to access different parts of the disk surface. Floppy disks have just one recording surface, Hard disks save several recording surfaces, usually two or four but on large drives may be up to 16. Each surface has its own read/write head, all the heads move at the same time as all the arms are driven by one actuator which moves them around. With floppy disks the heads usually just touch the disk surface. Hard drives spin much faster and the heads skim just off the surface, separation is maintained by a cushion of air created by the design of the plastic head body - it works a little like an aircraft wing.
