[Coco] Super Disk; was: Help floppy drive

[Bruce W. Calkins]

Rooting through my incomming computer junk pile I found a Parallel Port 
Super Disk Drive, 120MB.  The Instalation Guide says "CAUTION Avoid Laser 
Beam".

Inside the case it appears that the drive has a IDE to Parallel convererter 
board.  The drive itself has the  IDE standard MA, SL & CS jumpers.  Popping 
the cover off reveals a single double head set that looks a lot like a 
double eliment floppy head eliment.

That is as far as I am going.  I'm not sure what or how I'll use it, but, 
I'm not killing it just yet.

Bruce W.


> Here's a Wikipedia article ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk )
> about the LS-120 SuperDisk, which is what I was thinking about.  The
> LS-240 variant could apparently put 32M on an ordinary 1.44M disk, but
> you had to erase and re-write the entire disk if you changed anything.
>
> JCE
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>> --L. Curtis Boyle