Howdy, Would someone(s) be kind enough to recommend to me an enclosure for my old LS-120 "SuperDrive" so I can connect it to a USB on my machine and use it as an external floppy drive? I usually buy stufff from newegg and I looked there, but I can't for sure figure out which if any of the enclosures I saw will work. THanks in advaance Jim

What you need is USB to 3.5" IDE, as the superdrive is basically the same size as a regular 3.5" IDE hard drive. The problem is, external hard drive enclosures don't have an opening for the end of the superdrive. If you don't want to cut the new enclosure up yourself, then you will need to get a USB to IDE for CDROM drives and get the mounting hardware for mounting 3.5" drives (like floppy drives or your superdrive) in 5.25" bays. The problem there is that you will have a significantly bigger box and there doesn't seem to be any retailers offering such products. Here's a wholeseller example of what I mean: http://www.acesuppliers.com/Supplie... Now, there are a LOT of retailers selling these USB to IDE adapter cables. I brought one recently for around $9 and it works great. It works with 2.5 and 3.5 hard drives or any other IDE/ATAPI type devices. But, there's no box or enclosure. The drive just sits out on the desktop or wherever with the wires going to it.

Is your computer a laptop? I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish. If you need access to files on the zip drive then I suggest you temporarily connect it to your system internally and copy off any needed data. Maybe burn to optical disk. If you think that drive will replace an internal floppy I would suggest you install an internal instead. It is $10 spent wisely. I NEVER build a system without an internal floppy drive. I am not going to get into all the possible advantages of an internal. Just suffice to say there are many. Booting to a USB device of any kind is less dependable and in many cases impossible to do.

Not a laptop. The LS-120 is mounted on an adapter that fits a wide bay. I used to have it mounted just below the floppy on my e-machines 400 and later the e-machines 2.4. Problem is the Acer I have now has a hinged door to an empty bay below the DVD, but the bay is blocked by sheet metal, so I can't install the LS-120 internally. The LS-12o reads and writes 120mb superdisks, as well as regular floppies, and lot fataser than the floppy drives do. I might have to see how hard butchering an external housing will be. Darn! I just gave away an extra one last week.

I guess I didn't make myself clear. First, do you need to access existing data on archived disks? Second, You can't use that drive the same way you use a normal floppy drive for boot purposes. BIOS treats it like a hard drive, doesn't it?

First...No Second... a. I'm not sure that's the case b. No Thanks for the advice. I think I found an enclosure at newegg.com that will work

If you need to supply drivers at startup you need an internal floppy. Your Zip drive connect to the IDE controller doesn't it? Same goes for flashing the BIOS.