[ale] castlewood orb drive

[marnuke]

I had a chance to play around with an orb drive.  It's a very cool drive
and is nothing but a hard drive platter in a case.  It work like any other
IDE or SCSI drive.  Nothing special or major what so ever.  Just plug it
in insert a disk, mkfs /dev/hd?#, and mount /dev/hd?#.  Everything works
fine. I would like to get one my self if a friend i knew had one.

/\/\ar/\/uke
marnuke at bellsouth.net


>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