[Coco] Super Disk; was: Help floppy drive

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The superdisks are ide drives. As you suspected the parallel port
version is the ide drive with a converter. The ide drive itself works
with the cloud-9 ide under nitros. it should let you access regular
1.44 meg floppies as well as the superdisk. i've seen a few superdisk
drives for sale recently, but the media is $20 to $30 per pop.-r


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Coco] Super Disk; was: Help floppy drive
> From: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucewcalkins at charter.net>
> Date: Fri, April 13, 2007 1:36 pm
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> 
> 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 >>
> >> --L. Curtis Boyle -- Coco mailing list Coco at maltedmedia.com
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