The SuperDisk drive itself is compatible with 1.44 BM and 720 MB floppy formats. The SuperDisk LS-120 includes 120 MB of disk storage while the LS-240 contains 240 MB of disk storage. However, any time a change is made to the LS-240, the entire disk must be rewritten like early CD-RW media.Ī SuperDisk drive was included in two Panasonic digital cameras, the PV-SD4090 and PV-SD5000, which could use both SuperDisk (LS120) and 3.5-inch floppy disks as the memory media.
to make sure the version of the BIOS in your computer is capable of supporting the Superdisk drive. The SuperDisk LS-240 has double the capacity of the LS-120 and could also format regular floppy disks up to 32 MB capacity. Question 2128 - I have an Imation Superdisk drive. The SuperDisk system is one of the last examples of floptical technology where lasers are used to guide a magnetic head that is significantly smaller than the magnetic heads used in traditional floppy disk drives. Anyone know where I can get one, Imation quit supporting this drive years ago.
Imation ceased manufacturing the SuperDisk LS-120 in 2003. I recently had to reformat my hard drive (XP) and lost the driver to my Imation Superdisk 120mb drive. The SuperDisk was successful in Asia and Australia but had little success in North America because Compaq, Gateway, and Dell were three of only a handful of original equipment manufacturers. The SuperDisk was manufactured primarily by Matsushita. The SuperDisk hardware was designed by 3M’s storage products group Imation in 1997. The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 1.44 MB, 90-mm (3.5-inch) floppy disk. The packing characteristics determined by the broken rotational symmetry of superballs are similar to but richer than their two-dimensional 'superdisk' counterparts Y.