floppy drive

基本解释

You can also make a LILO floppy boot disk by pointing this parameter to the floppy drive, most commonly /dev/fd0.
还可以将这个参数指向软盘驱动器（最常见的是 /dev/fd0），来制做 LILO 软盘引导磁盘。
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.
如果软盘不适合（例如，如果计算机没有软盘驱动器），则可以使用能够通过 BIOS 引导的任何设备。
I ran the program under an emulator, writing the data to a USB floppy drive plugged into a Mac.
我在模拟器下运行该程序，将数据写入已经插入 Mac 的一个 USB 软盘驱动器。

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?
从物理大小上来说几乎相同,那么现在的硬盘的存储大小,一般有多少字节呢？
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Good question, so what happens when you format a floppy disk or format a hard drive?
好问题，当你格式化一个软盘,或者硬盘时会发生什么呢？
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