Does this product only read or will it write on 3.5 disks as well? I have an older embroidery machine that reads 3.5 disks.
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Both reads and writes, but it's tedious . . . wait! It was ALL tedious back in that day. Works best on USB 2.0.
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Yes it will write as well as read files. In windows 7 I have to open the files folder, select computer in the left side panel to get floppy drive A to show up in the right side panel.
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I think it only reads jpg files as far as images go. I just used Microsoft publisher to reconfigure all my images to jpg files.
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I have only used the drive with 1.44 floppies so I can't say about the other floppies. It works really well with those. I am very pleased with this product.
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I can't be absolutely specific, but it works better with a small one, about as small as you can find on the market. The machine can't read large sticks well. My dealer says to put fewer than 20 embroidery designs on one stick. I would put even fewer than that. My machine leaves out some of the designs when I try to put too many on the stick. If 2 gigabytes is the smallest stick you can get (that's my memory), then that is the one to use. I have found them on Amazon, but not in stores. Good Luck.
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Hi, I'm not sure what the old Kodak A drive disks were. If they look like and are constructed like standard 3.5" floppies, this drive should read them. Whether your jpeg pix will open or not I think will depend on your graphics program. Hope this helps. This is a nice little drive, and I've had good luck with it reading my old floppies---including many jpeg files.
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If you have a Black and Green mirrored together, it will handle writes at only the speed of the slower drive - both drives must be written. Reads should be shared between the drives - I dunno if the OS would be smart enough to do more reads from the Black than the Green - I wouldn't count on it. Overall, not recommended. Best to use two of the same drives for a mirror.
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All my disks were/are 1.44mb. The Sabrent was able to read, write and reformat the 1.44 disk. The curious behavior about the unit is that it does not respond immediately. It is almost as if it has to think what do I do next once it is given a command. My system is Vista and I have to use a slow usb port.
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the hard drive is 160GB, I am unsure on your question on optical drive, all drives read and write; now all Disc are not read and write. I guest the answer to your question is , yes it reads and writes if you use a read and write disc.
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Mine could... and it 'should'... since all the 1.44 diskette read/writers were backward compatible. I'd heard 'they' bought these off the used market and put them in a 'USB Box'--- So, the original DD read/writers are ancient---- they went out quick in favor of the 1.44's that were backward compatible. Also, there's a Driver that comes with it you may/may-not need. So--- it 'should', mine did... but I can't promise you 100.00% anything. :-)
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If you found out an answer to this problem let me know. I am trying to use it on a windows, from a mac, and it wont even read it.
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I have only used it to read some old 3M and TDK disks that had data on them but it worked like a champ on everything I have tried.
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I used a version of this floppy drive with Windows 8 system to read some of previous files made on IBM compatible computers. Some of the files could not been read. Your MAC format layout is different than what your Windows 7 System requires.
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It will read Blu-ray discs. Specifically, what shows up in my device manager is an "Optiarc BD RW BD-5750L", the specs of which indicate that it might be able to actually write blu-rays as well, but I have not confirmed this and I can't guarantee you'd get the same drive. It can read/write DVDs.
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I tried to use this drive to make images of the original disks for some old games stored on 720k disks. It was able to read some but not all of the disks. The Nippon Labs device I tried after this one read all the disks easily and correctly.
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Does anyone read the product descriptions? It says it comes with two disks. One with the 32 bit version and one with the 64 bit version.
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I bought 2.5 Memorex disks and they work great! Sure would be worth a try by buying a few.
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Beware!!! The PDF data sheet link for the Lacie states it's for 3.5 inch floppy discs.Do the research before you buy this if you absolutely need a drive to read/write to 5.25 inch discs.