As far as writing 32 MB to a 1.44 MB diskette, we Zip250 Drive, which is much cheaper than the LS-240 and uses readilyĪvailable disks. 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,
The softwate works on my Windows 8.1 notebook computer by using the Windiws XP SP3 compatibility option.The LS-240 SuperDisk Drive is expensive. There are two versions, a Panasonic and an Imation.
The software can still be downloaded from old online forums. I would love to post a link but i would hate to break any rules.
I even show how to use the SuperWriter32 software which stores 32mb of data onto a 1.44 floppy disk. I have a YouTube video (Android smartphone reads 32Mb of data on standard floppy disks) where i show my collection of three LS-240 floppy drives. The shipping options are DHL and FedEx which are not cheap. An easy way around this is to use the Buyee service that receives your item in Europe and mails it to the U.S.A.
Most sellers refuse to ship to the U.S.A no matter how much money you offer, bummer. They are the USB buspowered Panasonic (white), and USB buspowered Imation blue or green housings. Normally there are between 2 to 6 of these drives, sometimes more. You can buy these LS-240 floppy drives from the Japanese Yahoo Auctions webstore. I created a VCF account just to be able to reply here. One word of caution: never use a floppy cleaning disk – you will instantly destroy the SuperDisk drive. I ended up having to pull data off hundreds of LS120 disks for her, using the LS240 disks – which work fine. I was even sent 8 of these drives by my old girlfriend to see if I could get any to work and those were all brand new sealed units. These come up very often on ebay, but I would steer well clear of them.
The LS120’s that I own are all the standard IDE/PATA interface. Of all the SuperDisk 240 (LS240) drives I would say the Que! Superdisk is the best by far. These have the proprietary Ultrabay 2000 interface. The other type I own are 2 of IBM Thinkpad T23 Ultrabay 2000 type. It is my understanding that these were popular with Mac users too. They use a USB interface, but I have found I can also boot from them through the USB on a SuperMicro X6DAE Motherboard Bios. The LS240’s that I personally own are 2 of QPS Que! Superdisk 240mb FD32mb However, if you have an LS120 then I will be really impressed if you can get it to read anything. You can pull the SuperDisk out of its housing and use an Easy IDE adaptor instead. I presume you are referring to the power adaptor when you mention. I have no idea what a scorecard for the Mac is. Not sure if that question was meant for me.
If anyone wants this Superwriter32 software I have stuck it on a download site. The media – the disks themselves I have found to be quality. So far I have not had an LS-240 drive fail on me. I came to these drives quite by chance, as an ex girlfriend of mine, was having serious problems because 1000’s of MB of data that had been stored on LS-120’s could no longer be read on the LS-120 drives that were bought at the time to do the job. I use it on my XP Workstations and Laptops.
However I have never got it to work on Windows 7 or later. The software Superwriter32 is very slim doesn’t grab resources and works well. It doesn’t need to be rewritten, so writing speed not a problem. If one uses variable bit rate MP3 recording you can get a whole album in quite high quality on a floppy for your 32mb. I have probably 1000 albums stored on floppy disk and just printed off nice album covers for floppy’s as I went to put on front of floppy. The SuperWriter32 software is slow to write, but the disks can be read fast by simple insertion.
I still use LS-240’s with floppy, LS-120 and LS-240 disks. Perhaps Imation should have waited and only brought these out, the damage was done with the LS-120’s terrible build quality. The LS-240’s are an entirely different experience – they work. The heads miss-align for the laser on the LS-120’s, so in effect you have a relatively quick floppy drive reader, as this uses a separate head (I believe). I still have 4 LS-240’s (2X QPS QUE1’s and 2 Ultrabay 2000 models) drives and 6 LS-120’s are that the LS-120’s all fail regardless of how they are stored, or if they are brand new and never used. Regarding LS-240’s and LS-120’s My experience covering about 20 drives.