get attached to the disk. One lever opens the metal plate, or shutter, to expose the data access area. Other levers
and gears move two r
ead/write heads until they almost touch the diskette on both sides. The drive’s circuit
board receives instructions for reading/writing the data from/to disk through the floppy drive controller. If the
data is to be written onto the disk, the circuit board first verifies that no light is visible through a small window
in the floppy disk. If the photo sensor on the opposite side of the floppy disk detects a beam of light, the floppy
drive detects disk to be write-protected ...
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