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| Floppy drives sit in a computer's drive bay and are secured by mounting screws on the front or sides of the drive. Mounting rails sometimes are used if the floppy is a much smaller size than the bay. |
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| The floppy drive is powered by the computer's power supply. Cables attach the floppy drive to the power supply and bring power to the drive. |
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| The motherboard communicates with the floppy drive by sending and receiving information along a set of ribbon cables that run from the motherboard or an add-in card plugged into the motherboard to the floppy drive. |
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| When data is read or written to the disk, the floppy drive's controller board receives information from the motherboard, and sends signals to the drive's circuit board. The circuit board then controls the movement of the floppy disk, and of read/write heads located inside the floppy drive. |
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| When floppy drives store data, read/write heads move along the surface of the disk until they find an empty spot to place the data. When the drives are looking for data, the read/write heads move along the surface of the disk, until they find the data being looked for, and then read the data. |
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| A light on the front of some floppy drives lights up when data is being accessed from the drive. |
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