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Non-Tech : Iomega Thread without Iomega -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (9649)	5/5/1999 12:48:00 PM
From: Cameron Dorey	Respond to of 10072

"There have been nothing but raves about the ORB drive on Usenet." Where in the heck are you looking? There has been just about nothing on comp.sys.ibm.hardware.storage since just after the URP! came out, and what was there at first was a mixed bag. I don't have access to alt.ORBorHiFD.fantasy-life at my machine. Oh, I get it, you're using one of those news filters: <FILTER> ORB->Negative->Ignore ORB->Positive->Copy(x50) ORB->NotFound->MakeUp </FILTER> Cameron "Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change."

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (9649)	5/5/1999 1:48:00 PM
From: David Harker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

>The "geek" guy on that link you posted could have a system conflict Huh? System conflicts don't cause bad sectors! You are clueless. So far Sony and now Castlewood have produced CRAP when trying to compete w/ Iomega - there seem to be high barriers to entry.

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (9649)	5/5/1999 3:25:00 PM
From: Frank Drumond	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10072

What this ORB user is probably seeing is the effects of ORB shipping unformatted media. Now I was accused of ORB bashing for daring to mention the technical details of their technology. The simple fact of the matter is that since ORB media is unformatted if users do not turn on the write verification option (goes back and reads everything they write) then users can and will lose data by unknowingly writing to bad spots on the disk. This is why the defects grow for the end user. It is simply that he is verifying the media integrity with his data. This is not a slam of ORB it simply reflects the method that they have chosen to cut costs. By not formatting the media they save money in production but the user then must be savvy enough to turn on write verify which more than halves the drives throughput. Frank Neither short not long IOM, just a storage geek.

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (9649)	5/6/1999 10:06:00 AM
From: eric larson	Respond to of 10072

Yet another "rave" ORB review: "Re: Castlewood ORB having problems already?" x3.dejanews.com[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN=474695317 "I too purchased an ORB and am having problems. Disks will not mount--the drive thrashes forever, rejects the disk, or simply crashes the system. I thought this might be a software problem, but removed all ORB software (effectively making the ORB a fixed drive) and it still thrashes, crashes, or is otherwise unable to recognize the drive. I would love to hear from other purchasers regarding their experiences. In all fairness, Castlewood has been responsive adn easy to work with although they seem to not have a clue to why this is happening. I am using WIN98 and something tells me that the ORB is experiencing compatibility problems with the latest operating system. Please, any comments from current ORB users, expecially WIN98 users. Thanx -- Quiva La" (5/6/99)