You are referring to the SparQ drive which used to be made by SyQuest. It
had 1GB cartridges which were very inexpensive (like $35 each). I had
one, it was crap, I never trusted it. I eventually gave it away with a
computer.
I've heard more favorable comments on the Orb drive. I may purchase one
myself in fact.
On Tue, 9 May 2000, erik wrote:
> 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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