Anyone using an ORB drive with MacOS 9: After talking to Castlewood tech support this afternoon I was told that the problem I described in the earlier post over the weekend is a…

I have an ORB SCSI external running MacOS 8.6. I have found the drive good, but Castlewood's software marginal. However, a product called Hard Disk SpeedTools (v.2.5.1, Intech Soft…

I have had terrible luck with my ORB, until now. After months of suspecting bad hardware, the recently introducted Orb Tools 1.2.6 fixed *ALL* of my problems. All versions before…

I'm thinking of getting a CD-R drive; what I had in mind is the LaCie 8x/20x model. Are there any other 8x burners I should consider also? Also, I need some advice in choosing CD…

Well, while it isn't an 8x drive, I have had very good experiences with Yamaha 4416 and 6416 drives (4x4x16 and 6x4x16, respectively). I found them to be unusually reliable. Of the…

If you have the room for an internal drive, get one of those and save some money. I was able to purchase Panasonic's 4x8x internal SCSI drive a year and a half ago for $299 (compar…

Our LaCie drive (based on an ugly Sony mechanism) had been messing up left and right lately, no matter what kind of media we used. Then we started using Memorex gold discs, and it'…

although they are kind of pricey, Yamaha media really works well. I have never (knock on wood) had a coaster with a Yamaha CD-R.

OK, I am trying to install OT 1.1.1 on an older Mac. I have all the files I need on a zip disk. When I go though the installation it asks for "Install 1", which is on the zip alo…

Each floppy has to be named exactly what it is asking for. Rename the floppy to Install 1 and all will be well. You can also create floppy images using Disk Copy that will work. …

I did that and I got the message, " although this is the correct name it is not the correct disk. Any thing else?

Hi, I still need some help here. As I mentioned, I did the rename of the floppy and it didn't work. More importantly, however, why didn't it just read the file of the zip, and h…

(sigh) i have had this problem, it has been a long time ago and was a different software package of course... let's see if i can recall. it is a disk image problem, the images on…

I am not exactly sure what you mean by the disk image. But, at any rate this is what I am doing, I am using my iMac to download and unstuff any and all files that need to go to th…

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Have a recently purchased Sony Spressa drive. Have found that software does not support advanced functions that I need. Works perfectly for basic writing of data and audio CD's Sel…

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