floppy drive

基本解釋

You can also make a LILO floppy boot disk by pointing this parameter to the floppy drive, most commonly /dev/fd0.
還可以將這個參數(shù)指向軟盤驅動器（最常見的是 /dev/fd0），來制做 LILO 軟盤引導磁盤。
If a floppy is not appropriate (for example, if the machine has no floppy drive), then any device that can be booted by your BIOS can be used.
如果軟盤不適合（例如，如果計算機沒有軟盤驅動器），則可以使用能夠通過 BIOS 引導的任何設備。
I ran the program under an emulator, writing the data to a USB floppy drive plugged into a Mac.
我在模擬器下運行該程序，將數(shù)據(jù)寫入已經(jīng)插入 Mac 的一個 USB 軟盤驅動器。

It's roughly the same size physically as those floppy disks and yet how many, how much, how many bytes fit on a typical hard drive today?
從物理大小上來說幾乎相同,那么現(xiàn)在的硬盤的存儲大小,一般有多少字節(jié)呢？
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Good question, so what happens when you format a floppy disk or format a hard drive?
好問題，當你格式化一個軟盤,或者硬盤時會發(fā)生什么呢？
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