Re: Has anyone gotten the ORB USB drive working with the 2.3 kernel, yet?

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@suse.com)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 09:50:15 EST


OBS or Castlewood has no interest in Linux.........
I live about 20 minutes from their HQ, and they would not even loan
product, much less give, for testing and certification.........

Skip them is a place to spend you money, until they become "friendly" ..

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Miles Lane wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> The Castlewood USB ORB drive is an external removable media drive
> with a 2.2GB capacity. It has a SCSI 50-pin High Density Narrow
> connector. The SCSI connector is attached to a special cable
> (I'm not sure what distinguishes this cable from a standard
> SCSI cable, but Castlewood says it isn't one) and then a secondary
> cable is provided that apparently does some magic to convert
> SCSI signals to USB Type A. This second cable ends in a USB
> connector.
>
> The SCSI interface supports data transfer rates up to 12.2 MB/s
> sustained rate and a 20MB/s burst rate. The USB interface
> supports up to 1 MB/s (I haven't determined what the average
> transfer rate is for standard use).
>
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Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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