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Operation
Notes concerning USB connection
About the USB cable
The USB cable connectors are shaped differently on the ends
that connect to the computer (upstream) and the USB device
(downstream).
About USB connection
• Connect the HiFD drive to the USB port on your Macintosh
or PC. Connection via a hub cannot be guaranteed.
• Do not connect the HiFD drive to the keyboard USB hub on a
Macintosh.
• Connection of multiple HiFD drives at the same time cannot
be guaranteed.
• The USB device and the computer can be switched on and off
in any sequence.
• With USB connection, you may connect and disconnect the
USB device while the computer and USB device are switched
on.
Inserting a disk
Insert a HiFD/Floppy disk into the drive.
Before a floppy disk may be used, it must be formatted.
Commercially available pre-formatted 200 MB* HiFD or 1.44
MB/720 kB DOS disks and 1.4 MB Macintosh format disks do
not need to be reformatted.
See Usable Floppy Disks on page 18 for compatibility details.
* 200 MB capacity, where 1 MB = 1 million bytes.
HiFD/Floppy disk
