is the only software which can create an image file of a FAT-formatted LS-120 disk and write the image back to an LS-120 disk For Win9x only, does not work under WinXP
More info about these 3 drives is in posting #88Ī unique and highly recommended general tool for removable media (regular floppies, LS-120 disks, Iomega zip and jaz). 11795 Parallel Port Drive ("old parallel, no dongle drive")ģ) Modded Imation SD 120 PPD2 ("new parallel, with dongle") of 2 floppies, as with Beyond CompareĢ) Imation Model No. best choice as a 2nd floppy drive, e.g. best choice as a regular external floppy drive for computers which don't have a built-in 1.44MB floppy drive best choice as 1st LS-120 drive, is fast, works fine under Win98 and WinXP, requires a power supply brick, works fine with 720KB and 1.44MB floppies
Esoteric: Forensic software and UDF formatted LS-120 disksġ) Imation SuperDisk USB for Mac Drive, Model No. Esoteric: UDF formatted 720kB and 1.44MB floppy disks Can bulk-erased LS-120 disks be reformatted?
Creating and restoring images of LS-120 disks Only with DOS or Win9x: What canNOT be done under WinXP?
nusb/Microsoft-provided drivers under Win98 Manufacturer-provided USB/PCMCIA drivers of LS-120 drives vs. Review of LS-120 drives (Parallel, PCMCIA, USB, ATAPI) The awful quality of LS-120 disks: Destined to die
The awful quality of LS-120 drives: Dead and dying drives Toolbox (good LS-120 software and hardware) What can an LS-120 drive be used for in 2011? So for more information in some matters you may wish to contact me by PM. Portions of my postings in this topic, especially my experimentations, may fall into the realm of the esoteric, in the sense of: private, not-intended-for-publication. In this topic I will share, with other members of this forum, some of my experience with LS-120 drives. Actually I got my first LS-120 drive in 2003, but I had rarely used it until 2009, when I archived my regular floppy disks They are amazing devices of an age gone by. SuperDisk should not be confused with SuperDrive, which is a trademark used by Apple Computer for various disk drive products.I have been fiddling around, on and off, with LS-120 drives during the past 2 years. All drives can read and write 1.44MB and 720kB MFM floppies, as used on PCs, 1988-1998 Macintoshes, and many workstations. SuperDisk drives came in parallel port, USB and ATAPI variants. A variant of the technology, the LS-240, is still sold in Asia and Australia it has double the capacity and the added feature of being able to format regular floppy disks to 21MB capacity. The biggest problem, though, was that Iomega's Zip drive had been out for 3 years at that point, and was popular enough that few people wanted to switch formats.īy 2000 the entire removable-disk category was quickly being obsoleted by the falling prices of CD-R drives, and the SuperDisk was no exception it has since been quietly discontinued, and the special disks, while still being made, are hard to find. Most SuperDisk drives suffered from slow performance and reliability problems. The system was not a huge success, however. 3M/Imation mainly sold Matsushita-built drives under the SuperDisk name other companies tended to use the LS-120 name, and sold the Mitsubishi drives. The idea eventually ended up at 3M, who cleaned it up and licensed the design to established floppy drive makers Matsushita and Mitsubishi. The design came from a early 1990s project at Iomega, who was one of the last proponents of Floptical technology it was orphaned around the time they decided to release the Zip drive in 1994. SuperDisk's main claim to fame was that it could read and write regular floppy disks just as well as its special disks. SuperDisk was introduced by 3M's storage products group (later known as Imation) circa 1997 as a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 3.5", 1.44MB floppy disk.