I havent had any experience with the orb drives, but I tried the same
thing with the syquest drives. They were made by a different company,
but thier CEO is the same person. syquest went out of business
because their drives werent that great. At first they got great write
ups, and I decided to buy one, I got a drive that held cartridges that
held 1gb. they cartridges never really say well in the drive and the
drive had lots of problems accessing the disks. I dont know if these
drives use the same technology, but becareful. Of course ymmv.
-e-
On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 11:01:32AM -0500, paul almquist wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Does anyone have any experience using Orb removable drives with linux?
>They have both SCSI and EIDE verisons. The capacity is about 2 GB.
>They are made by Castlewood Systems, Inc.
>
>Performance is not a major issue, reliability is, both drive and media.
>
>I am thinking about using them in some systems used for sys admin training.
>We need to be able to boot from them. OS's will be installed and configured
>on them. We presently use fixed SCSI drives (3 of them per server) but
>are running out of space due to increasing enrollments. We would use
>the internal SCSI model.
>
>OS's used are Linux, UnixWare, NetWare, Win98, WinNT and Win2000.
>
>Tell me your stories.
>
>paul
>
>ps-
>I have read the review in dec 99 linux journal. That was based
>on the parallel port model.
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