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66677	2002-07-30 10:38:00	I often use an fd adapter with 32 mb smartmedia in it. Great for a simple transfer, but slow as.	godfather (25)
66678	2002-07-30 13:13:00	Hi JM Do tell how? I have an early LS120 Superdisk and also a later model USB drive. At first flush I can't see how you can ask it to format a standard floppy to 32MB but I'm willling to learn! Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
66679	2002-07-31 01:12:00	It is the drive as found here (www.ascent.co.nz) it says on the drive that it can format a floppy to 32MB with the compression software included. It also mentions that here (www.imation.com).	-=JM=- (16)
66680	2002-07-31 02:24:00	Three good options Network installation support.microsoft.com Requires a working network, shared directories/drives and a properly configured bootable network floppy disk. DOS serial/parallel cable Use intersvr and interlnk from DOS 6x. Configuration instructions are access at a DOS 6x prompt - intersvr /? or interlnk /? Requires connection by parallel or serial cable and properly configured bootable floppy disks. CD drives are not recognised by intersvr - copy the CD to a hard drive Floppy disk installation support.microsoft.com Requires third party software if original disks are not available. Use Maxidisk from herne.com for DMF format and search for cabmaker if winzip is not configured. Date stamping of the cabinet files is critical - search and use time stamp. Other options include PKZIP/PKUNZIP or removing the laptop drive and installing in a PC using the appropriate adapter. Also Floppy- disk backup of the Windows 95 installation disks support.microsoft.com And a corrupt disk in a spanned zip archive requires recreation of the entire archive	Merlin (503)
66681	2002-07-31 05:27:00	Bugger :( My SuperDisks are LS120s not LS 240. Could be that it is a driver/software feature though, and I might get 16MB on a standard floppy instead. Actually, it sounds a bit like it doesn't really provide 32MB of disk space, maybe it just compresses 32 MB and crams it into a reformatted 1.44MB disk that offers 10 or 15MB of uncompressed space. I might have to keep on buying my own lunch after all. I'll watch this and other spaces for developments as the LS240 is quite new. If you have a chance to try it out JM I'd be interested in how it is set up and what the compression software actually does. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
66682	2002-07-31 05:39:00	3 . 5" floppies hold 1 . 44 Mb reasonably reliably . I don't trust them to hold any more . Writing a floppy is a two part operation . I consider the most important part is the second part: reading the information off . I don't believe 32 MB on standard floppies . Even compressed with a normal range of files . My compressed hard disks seem to average 2:1 . I might believe 4 MB . If the LS240 has a more powerful tracking laser than the LS120, and can burn a servo track on standard disks, that might work . Well off track, aren't we?	Graham L (2)
66683	2002-07-31 06:30:00	I'll try and test it out at some stage. The only thing I've ever used it for is reading floppies. It's kept in the room with all the HP ePC's. They have no floppies. So I'll try and test it out at some stage though. Would probably have to track down the software at college,	-=JM=- (16)
66684	2002-07-31 08:13:00	Well I'll be buggered :O A quick Google search uncovered ads like this: SUPERDISK 240 DRIVE OFFERS FEATURES THAT CAN'T BE BEAT AT ANY PRICE! THIS NEW INCARNATION OF THE SUPERDISK TECHNOLOGY CAN REFORMAT STANDARD 1.44MB FLOPPY DISKETTES TO A WHOPPING 32MB CAPACITY ALLOWING CONVENIENT STORAGE OF PHOTOS MP3 DATABASE AND OTHER CRITICAL INFORMATION. THAT'S 22 TIMES THE CAPACITY OF THE ORIGINAL 1.44MB DISKETTE! THE SUPERDISK 240 DRIVE ALLOWS YOU TO USE NEW HIGH CAPACITY 240MB SUPERDISKS TO FILL YOUR EVER-GROWING STORAGE NEEDS. IT ALSO SUPPORTS 120MB SUPERDISK 1.44MB AND 720KB FLOPPY DISKETTES GIVING YOU FULL BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY WITH LEGACY PORTABLE STORAGE MEDIA. KEY SELLING BULLETS · -USB BUS-POWERED INTERFACE · -PC/MAC COMPATIBLE · -SUPPORTS LS240 LS120 1.44MB FLOPPY AND 720KB FLOPPY MEDIA · -DANTZ RETROSPECT EXPRESS SOFTWARE FOR BACK-UP (PC/MAC) · -INDUSTRY STANDARD REMOVABLE MEDIA DRIVE · -SUPERWRITE32 TO FORMAT STANDARD 1.44MB FLOPPY DISK TO 32MB CAPACITY I guess they may have something there after all! Cheers Billy 8-{) :D :D	Billy T (70)
66685	2002-07-31 09:25:00	>ALLOWING CONVENIENT STORAGE OF PHOTOS MP3 DATABASE AND >OTHER CRITICAL INFORMATION There is no way that I would ever trust a floppy disk with any amount of critical data.	-=JM=- (16)
66686	2002-07-31 10:04:00	I'm with you on that one JM . It's hard enough to keep data safe on a pretty much hermetically sealed hard drive without entrusting it to magnetic media that is wide open to the elements by comparison . Mind you, I've never understood how major organisations can commit Gigs of crucial data to stretchy plastic tape with a life measured in passes, not hours, and call it a back-up . :O Yeah, I know when it works it works, but the horror stories of tape failures are legion . Cheers Billy 8-{) :D :D :D	Billy T (70)
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