ls-120 superdisk question

[chipbgt]

I am thinking of buying one of these. Mainly because I am thinking about buying a digital camera that handles them. Do these connect through like a cdrom or a hard drive (IDE) or do they connect through the floppy cable like the 1.44 drives? thanks

By the way, if anyone else is looking for a good deal, The cheapest I have found for an internal is 59.00 shipping included with 2 day fed ex at: http://www.computercomputer.com/imation_superdisk_ls120_internal.htm

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[krusty]

The data cable is IDE... i.e. like a CD ROM or HD & the power is like a floppy. As long as you have a recent MB/Bios(recent meaning no more than a couple of years old) Then it is as simple as connecting a CD rom or floppy drive.

I would be interested in knowing what camera you a looking at.

Good luck, K.

[chipbgt]

The reason I asked what kinda cable it connects through is because I already have a hdd, a zip, a cr-rw and a dvd/cd (I KNEW I should have got scsi /forum/wink.gif ) and the extra controller card I have doesnt allow me to overclock very well....but Its a fair trade off when I can store 120mb of pics on one disk and its easily trasferrable via superdisk /forum/smile.gif The link that I was given on another site when I was originnally looking for a digital camera that takes zip disks (so far no such thing) was for this camera:
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/trends/0,7607,2384472,00.html but I coudlnt find it on the panasonic or the sony websites anywhere. But I will keep looking...it may not be out yet.

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[scotter]

if you have a cd-rw why not just burn your pic's stright to a cd and then you would not need to worry about it save up 650 meg worth or there about's and do some burning heck disks are only $1.00 apiece or less /forum/smile.gif
alot cheaper than 120 meg zip disks


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[chipbgt]

Yeah, but any digital camera has to use something to transfer (flash cards, click card from iomega, floppies) from the camera to the computer and I would just like to get the largest amount of memory available "in" the camera...and don't worry, I plan on using the cd-rw to its full extent if I do get a digital camera =) I dont know...a 2mb flash card just isnt big enough. With that small amount (ability to store maybe 17 pics on a good camera) I'll be changing flash cards in and out...and for me the whole point of going digital is ease. And with a ls-120 I can theoretically use it on other computers to transfer large files a la zip....now only if people would buy the silly things =)

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[Ygor]

Ummm, Chip, it's not that easy.
I would like to have a superdisk myself, but it's among many things that have to wait.
In the meantime, bounce computercomputer against it's listing in Reseller Ratings. I think you'll change vendors...

[krusty]

You could get an external LS 120. Connect to your printer port.

Probably a little more expensive, but it would work.

[mod52sw]

Chip I've had a superdisk for 2 years now.

Sometimes I fall asleep trying to open a disk.

I see the new ones say there faster but I wish I had the CDRW for backups. Don't get over excited.