Section 1 - General
1 Scope
2 Conformance
3 Normative references
4 Definitions
4.1 Average Signal Amplitude
4.2 case
4.3 direction of rotation
4.4 disk
4.5 eraseability
4.6 formatting
4.7 hub
4.8 in-contact
4.9 Index
4.10 initialization
4.11 line of access
4.12 liner
4.13 Master Standard Reference Flexible Disk Cartridge
4.14 Reference Erase Field
4.15 Reference Field
4.16 Secondary Standard Reference Flexible Disk Cartridge
4.17 shutter
4.18 Side
4.19 Standard Reference Amplitude
4.20 Test Erase Current
4.21 Test Recording Current
4.22 Typical Field
5 General description
5.1 Drawings
5.2 Main elements
5.3 Description
Section 2 - Environments, mechanical and physical characteristics
6 General requirements
6.1 Environment and transportation
6.2 Materials
7 Dimensional characteristics
7.1 Case
7.2 Liner
7.3 Disk
7.4 Hub
7.5 Optional handling notches
7.6 Interface between cartridge and drive
7.7 Compliance
8 Physical characteristics
8.1 Flammability
8.2 Coefficient of linear thermal expansion of the disk
8.3 Coefficient of linear hygroscopic expansion of the disk
8.4 Torque
Section 3 - Unrecorded flexible disk cartridge
9 Magnetic characteristics
9.1 Recording area
9.2 Track geometry
9.3 Functional testing
Section 4 - Recording method and track format
10 General requirements
10.1 Mode of recording
10.2 Track location tolerance of the recorded flexible disk
cartridge
10.3 Recording offset angle
10.4 Density of recording
10.5 Flux transition spacing
10.6 Average Signal Amplitude
10.7 Byte
10.8 Sector
10.9 Cylinder
10.10 Cylinder number
10.11 Data capacity of a track
10.12 Hexadecimal notation
10.13 Error Detection Characters (EDC)
11 Track layout
11.1 Index Gap
11.2 Sector Identifier
11.3 Identifier Gap
11.4 Data Block
11.5 Data Block Gap
11.6 Track Gap
12 Coded representation of data
12.1 Byte coding
12.2 Bit coding
Annexes
Annex A (normative) Test for compliance
Annex B (normative) Measurement of light transmittance
Annex C (normative) Method for measuring the effective track width
Annex D (normative) Procedure and equipment for measuring flux
transition spacing
Annex E (informative) Data separators for decoding MFM recording
Annex F (informative) EDC implementation
Annex G (normative) Cartridge distortion test gauge
Annex H (normative) Method for measuring peak shift
Annex J (normative) Head and read amplifier for functional testing
Annex K (normative) Procedure for determining test recording current
and test erase current