Castelwood Orb drive

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Castelwood Orb drive

I have an older Castlewood Orb 2.2 GB drive and a few backup discs. Anyone remember the Orb drive? I was wondering if anyone would know how I could mount this drive into Tiger?

The software that came with the drive is specifically for OS 9. Would anyone know if there are any type of drivers availabe for this drive in OS X? Castlewood seems to have gone out of business from what I have been able to find out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

MacMini, Powerbook, Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Posted on Aug 15, 2006 12:49 AM

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scottcm Author

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Aug 15, 2006 7:47 PM in response to sig

Thanks for your reply. I have a SCSI Orb drive and Castlewood later sent me a SCSI to USB inverter. So now I use USB to connect to my MacMini. And yes, I do see there are dealers still selling this drive. I am going to contact some of them.

The software disk that came originally with the drive only will open in Classic but you would think OS X.4.7 would recognize the drive. Thanks again.

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Aug 15, 2006 7:59 PM in response to scottcm

"but you would think OS X.4.7 would recognize the drive."

I wouldn't count on it. With the exception of high-end SCSI cards, OS X and SCSI devices have never played well together. So unless you an expensive SCSI card such as ones from ATTO, you'll probably never get it to work.

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Aug 15, 2006 5:30 AM in response to scottcm

How does the drive connect to the computer? They may have gone out of business but I do see the drives available. Google "Castlewood Orb".

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scottcm Author

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Aug 25, 2006 11:14 PM in response to Templeton Peck

Thank you for your input. Perhaps I am stuck then with using this Orb drive only in OS 9 then?

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