SuperDisk

The Super Disk of Imation was a magnetic disk. The storage capacity ( LS120 ) was higher than that of a ZIP100 disk (100 MB) 120 MB. 2001 Super Disk drives and media with 240 MB capacity ( LS240 ) were taken as internal and external versions on the market. The Super Disk was intended as a successor to the floppy as the previously published Iomega Zip disk of the competitors.

Despite the technical advantages over the zip system, the Super Disk could not prevail because the Zip disk were previously appeared on the market and had already found in the introduction of the Super Disk a certain distribution. In addition, the LS- media were initially error prone and expensive.

As CD burners were affordable, they quickly displaced both Super Disk and Zip disk.

Technology

The abbreviation "LS " stands for " laser power " and refers to the operation of the drive: writing to and reading the media are magnetically positioning of the read-write head at the 120/240-MB-Medien done visually with the aid of a laser. The drives could read and write and conventional diskettes with 720 KB and 1.44 MB capacity. 2.88 MB floppies with ED were not supported.

The 240 MB drive was also using a special packet writing software (which was however offered only for Windows ) file on standard 1.44MB floppy disks up to 32 MB. Reading and writing was then performed using an included application. A transparent integration into the system as a block device and thus a random access to the files on the media by other applications was not given it. Reformatting the HD disks for this particular format was such that at the beginning of the medium was maintained in conventional formatting a small area, so that such disks, inserted into a conventional drive to the system presented as a medium with an exhausted memory and a Recalling the special formatting in a text file contained.

Super Disk drives were largely supplied with ATAPI interface. Which the disks could be used in almost all PCs.