to have a rough indication of the quality of regular 720KB/1.44MB floppies and LS-120 disks
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. Unfortunately it would seem quite a bit of the information on the product has since been removed from the internet.I have been fiddling around, on and off, with LS-120 drives during the past 2 years. Late in the products life there was also a 120GB version released, unfortunately due to the design the cartridges could not be used in different sized models. They used cartridges that contained platters similar to that of a hard drive while the read head was inside the drive. The Iomega REV drive was released in 2009 somewhat as a replacement for the previous Jaz drive. The Iomega ZIP drive was another attempt like the super disk to become a floppy disk replacement with 100MB, 250MB and eventually a short lived 750MB version.Īgain the uptake of CD burners and USB storage caused it’s failure. This was pulled from an old dual P3 server but I thought it was rather interesting due to having a AMD AM79C972BKC LAN controller, a LSI 53C875JE SCSI controller and then an Intel 21152-AB PCI Bus controller all on the same card.ĭPT PM3224 PCI SCSI card with 72 pin expandable cacheĪnother piece I haven’t been able to find a huge amount of information on but have included it as it’s quite an interesting piece and having expandable cache would have been a great feature. Later a 240MB version was released but with CD burners and USB sticks taking off the product never really got off the ground. The Imation SuperDisk was designed to be a replacement for typical floppy disks and was backward compatible with 3.5″ floppy’s but had a faster read performance due to using the IDE interface instead of the typical floppy connector.