On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> >Anyone have any experience with an ORB drive. Had 2 Sparq drives that
> >crashed and burned and damaged discs as well. I noticed on their web
> >site that the same guy that ran Syquest before declaring bankruptcy or
> >whatever is now running Castlewood, the company that makes the ORB.
>
>
> I bought the IDE version to test out (I would normally use SCSI) - I have a
> client who could use about 5/6 on different Linux servers. At the moment
> you can't use them as removable drives on Linux. I have started using this
> test drive on NT and backup across the network - it is still a bit flakey I
> think but at least seems to work on NT.
>
> I have finally got a response from Castlewood and the guy reckons they will
> have a Linux driver in the new year . . .
>
OnStream (www.onstream.com, IIRC) has Linux drivers for the
IDE version(s) of their removeable media drives. SCSI
drivers coming soon.
John
