[ale] castlewood orb drive

[Jeff Hubbs]

Tell us - what's the story on the Castlewood Orb drive?

- Jeff

Benjamin Scherrey wrote:

> Friend of mine just got his yesterday, internal IDE. Booted it up and
> it ran under NT without requiring ant drivers. He's just now getting
> his linux setup going so its going to be a few days till I get a
> report on linux support but I would anticipate that it would just look
> like another ide hard drive.
>
>         good luck,
>
>                 Ben Scherrey
>
> "S. Eric Asberry" wrote:
> >
> > I was just curious if any of you folks have tried using the new Castlewood
> > Orb drive under Linux?  Apparently it is currently available as an EIDE
> > drive, soon to be available in SCSI.  I looked around on dejanews and saw
> > some posts that said it "should" work, but I just wondered if anybody had
> > any personal experience with them.  They look pretty cool, and they're low
> > cost to boot! (does that count as a pun?)
> >
> > Eric