Write Floppies on a Zip Drive?

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A search tells me that it was once possible to read and write 1.4 MB
floppies on a SuperDisk drive, and that it may still be possible on a
Mac Zip drive (or something like it). But how about the PC? Is there
a high-capacity floppy-like drive (Zip or whatever) that will also
handle the humble floppy disk?
 
Previously Ray Woodcock said:
A search tells me that it was once possible to read and write 1.4 MB
floppies on a SuperDisk drive, and that it may still be possible on a
Mac Zip drive (or something like it). But how about the PC? Is there
a high-capacity floppy-like drive (Zip or whatever) that will also
handle the humble floppy disk?
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Zip: no. The mechanics cannot do that. LS-120: yes. The LS-120
is an IDE floppy that can read/write specially formatted 20MB disks.
I think it can also write more on normal floppies. Might be
difficult to find.

Arno
 
Arno said:
Zip: no. The mechanics cannot do that. LS-120: yes. The LS-120
is an IDE floppy that can read/write specially formatted 20MB disks.
I think it can also write more on normal floppies. Might be
difficult to find.
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The LS-240 can write 34 meg on a standard diskette, but you need a special
program to write it and to read it. As far as I know there was never
anything similar for the LS-120.
 
Hi,

Before CD-r/rw there used to be a zip type drive with a capacity of 120 MB that
would read both their proprietary 120 MB cardridges and 1.44 MB floppies.
I don't remember the manufacturer but maybe a Google search will find it.
Rosita
 
Hi,

Before CD-r/rw there used to be a zip type drive with a capacity of 120 MB that
would read both their proprietary 120 MB cardridges and 1.44 MB floppies.
I don't remember the manufacturer but maybe a Google search will find it.
Rosita
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These were called LS120 or "A" Drives and replaced the Floppy and
interfaced to IDE for the 120MB Cartridge.
 
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