O’Reilly members experience live online training, plus books, videos, and digital content from nearly 200 publishers. Get PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform. The same might be true of the parallel port model, but. The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 MB floppy disk.The SuperDisk hardware was created by 3M's storage products group Imation in 1997, with manufacturing chiefly by Matsushita. Internal Hard Drives Desktop Hard Drive Server Hard Drive. The external USB drive can be transferred easily between a notebook and desktop system-assuming, of course, that both systems have USB ports and a USB-aware OS-allowing you to move data back and forth in relatively large chunks.
Under Win2000 Pro > Device Manager > Floppy Drives it has High Capacity Floppy disk. If you try to format it, it picks it up as a 720K diskette (). The drive attempts to read the disk, but it never can. It picks up the drive, but wont let you access it. Choose the USB model if you have a notebook Case & Internal Parts (Apple II) Computers (Apple II) Drives (Apple II). and it wont work under neither WinME OR Win2000 Pro. The ATAPI model running under Windowsĩ5A and earlier also requires drivers, so we expect similar conflicts
The USB, parallel port, and PC Card models requireĭrivers, and we’ve had reports of driver conflictsĪnd other problems with them. In addition, Imation is selling a 120MB, half-height internal and.
Imation Super Disk External USB Floppy Drive for Macintosh SD USB M Blue White. We will consider our options once the new 240MB SuperDisk drive comes out next year. Free shipping Free shipping Free shipping.
SuperDisk Drives than with USB, parallel port, and PC Card models.ĪTAPI models are supported natively by Windows 95B and later, and Imation SD-USB-M2 SuperDisk External Drive Super Disk for Mac Complete Macintosh. Our readers report many fewer problems with the internal ATAPI Choose the internal ATAPI model whenever possible Wouldn’t trust our data to such a scheme and suggest As far as writing 32 MB to a 1.44 MB diskette, we If you must have a high-capacity FDD larger than 120 MB, choose the Zip250 Drive, which is much cheaper than the LS-240 and uses readily.
Zip250 Drive, which is much cheaper than the LS-240 and uses readilyĪvailable disks. Its only advantages relative to the LS-120 are that it has twice the capacity and supports FD32MB, which allows using 1.44 MB diskettes as 32 MB write-once media. You must have a high-capacity FDD larger than 120 MB, choose the Which allows using 1.44 MB diskettes as 32 MB write-once media.
To the LS-120 are that it has twice the capacity and supports FD32MB,