Wow. I LOVED my old StyleWriter II. When I sold my G3 beige minitower and bought a B&W G3 I sold my SWII and got a Epson 740i -- and I LOVE IT MORE! Really, you're doing yours…

when I try to print I get a message that says the cartridge was not installed properly. Re-install cartridge correctly. I've re-installed the cartridge numberous times but can't p…

It may be that you have touched part of the cartridge that doesn't like to be touched... (reminds me of the old r'n r band, the Tubes, they had a song titled "Don't touch me there…

In desperate need of extra drive space I shelled out a pretty penny for a 9GB external LaCie drive in a d2 case. Performancewise its alright. No problems. But the noise this thi…

First you must determine whether it is the drive or the fan that is making the noise: if it is the former, putting the drive to sleep will help, if it is the latter, then you might…

Its most definitely the drive. When I get up close to it I can hear 2 distinct sounds - the drive spinning and the fan. The fan noise is not bad but the drive has this constant d…

I got an email from a helpful user. He suggests placing the drive in a larger drive casing or piece of furniture with bubble wrap or styrofoam egg carton in between the two. Does…

Try taking the case apart and putting rubber washers between the the case and the hard drive. You might have to get longer screws. That will help isolate the drive from the soundin…

This is what I have done. Works very well for anyone interested. I cut out the back section of my desk which lies behind one of my drawers and removed the back end of the drawer.…

Has anyone tried or have the ORB drive by CastleWood. IS it worth getting? Thanks Garrett

I don't have one but there are mixed reports that I have read... and the driver(s) seem to be suspect... ORB has something like the Iomega Tools package that is suspect I have also…

see http://www.macnn.com/contributions/orb.shtml

I have installed an Orb external SCSI drive on my Mac G3/266, OS 9. The driver (Castlewood Orb Driver v1.0.1) was installed from the Orb install CD that came with the drive. I down…

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…

Hello, I have an old SCSI Zip drive, which I originally used with my old Quadra 660AV. I got a G3 All-In-One (AIO) last December, and have been using the Zip with it. As you may kn…

Allow me to answer myself. No. Asside from the fact that internal drives have to be sealed, which the de-cased Zip is not (obvious in 20/20 hindsight: i forgot about that rather la…

do you like the QUE! drive? i've been considering many usb cd-rw's for my lime wonder, but i think i've settled on the QUE!. I would apprieciate any thoughts, good and bad that you…

hi, the que is okay for my needs, mainly backing up mac files/volumes and some mix cds. as long as you have vm off, nothing else going on, and don't mind the time (the usb bottlene…

yeah! that does help, i think i'll buy one when i build up the scratch.

Ster: actually, the idea of ripping a zip drive from the blue shell is not as farfetched as you might think, despite the window. As you may have seen the external jaz drives have a…

actually, i got the drive case open quite easily. there are three little plastic tabs that you have to pry open, that's it. to clarify a bit, the scsi connector is, of course, exte…

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…