- IMATION SUPERDISK LS 120 FOR MAC
- IMATION SUPERDISK LS 120 CODE
- IMATION SUPERDISK LS 120 ZIP
- IMATION SUPERDISK LS 120 MAC
IMATION SUPERDISK LS 120 ZIP
This is not ideal – I tend to have better luck with ZIP disks which often read out just fine the first time around.Īfter over two hours of total recovery time (some of that in a previous ddrescue process), I was still 1536 bytes away from complete recovery. The first pass left us with 83.5kiB of bad areas after around nine minutes. It seems all of them are ATAPI/IDE anyway, so it is easiest and most reliable to use a motherboard-hosted IDE port.Įnsuring the disk is write-protected, I shoved it into the drive and fired up ddrescue. The drive is an LS-120 extracted from a Parallel Port external drive. As this did not seem to be a major defect, I decided to just run it through the drive anyway. I recall SuperDisk advertising of the time claiming the disks were self-cleaning and smudge-proof (fingerprints were a big risk for floppy disks). Unfortunately, while examining the surface of the disk, it seems that it was not in perfect condition, with a “wear” or contamination spot on the surface. The profile of the disk is pleasant to hold – the edges are rounded unlike with ordinary 3.5″ floppy disks. The bronze-colouration of the brown disk has given away to plain silver though … perhaps this was cheaper.
IMATION SUPERDISK LS 120 CODE
The underside of the disk shows a code printed in dark blue ink, but otherwise resembles the other SuperDisk, including the oddly-shaped visually distinctive shutter protecting the media, a write protect tab and “rib” sections. One notable change is that the label no longer wraps over the spine of the disk – this change is perhaps good as labels had a habit of “peeling up” when they were wrapped around the edge.
The disk itself has a metallic blue sheen, perhaps to distinguish from the plain blue of double-density 3.5″ disks which would have been mostly pushed into disuse by the time. It would not be my sort of preservation if I didn’t take the time to scan both sides of the inlay and upload clean images for your enjoyment!
To my delight, the disk inside was blue! This was the colour I remember SuperDisks being on the advertisements, not the brown colour I had in my collection. At the time, I was quite bullish on SuperDisk but never ended up getting one before the CD-R/RW drives “ate their breakfast.” It is interesting to see that one of the advertising points is “download from the internet” – indeed, many installation packages at the time were starting to outgrow the size of a single high-density 3.5″ floppy disk, so I did find myself making spanned ZIP archives more often than not. The disk is Made in the USA and the inlay card is dated 1998.
IMATION SUPERDISK LS 120 MAC
This is nothing major – I do all my readouts under Linux anyway and can mount Mac images under emulated Macs (via Basilisk II or Sheepshaver) or directly in Linux.
IMATION SUPERDISK LS 120 FOR MAC
This disk comes pre-formatted for Mac and it was confirmed that the disk is still in Mac format.
By now, the 3M branding had been eliminated, leaving Imation standing on its own. This would have been a later-version of the “brown” LS-120 SuperDisk I had posted about here. At first glance, I would be inclined to agree – it came complete with its single-disk protective jewel case and a clean inlay card. I was told that the disk in question was stored well and in good condition. I was all too happy to help, as that is part of the reason why I keep my vintage equipment alive. This entailed the postage of the disk and a USB stick to me at their cost, and covering the return postage of both items back to them upon completion. Rather than trying to chase an obscure special USB-to-Parallel/IDE cable and power supply for a second-hand unit from eBay, I decided to offer my assistance in recovering the data from the disk directly. Just a few weeks ago, I was contacted by Eddie Russell asking for some assistance in obtaining SuperDisk equipment to recover some data from a disk that has been sitting in a drawer for over a decade.
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