Orb drive locks up system

[Brute]

I seem to have a little problem... When I added an internal Orb drive, the computer wouldn't boot. I had a dual boot system, XP and Win2k, and as soon as I hit the OS I wanted to boot, it froze. Drive light was on but I heard no I/O. Shut down, disconnect the Orb drive, boots fine.

Ideas?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

what's an orb drive?

 

[Zepper]

. Be sure the drive is jumpered properly for the way you have it installed and that you have the proper type for your setup (IDE/SCSI).
. I was quite interested in the Castlewood Orb drive a while ago - not so interested anymore.
. An Orb drive is like the old Syquest (removable cartridge) or the Iomega Jazz. It has 2.2GB per cartridge ($40. or so) and is about as fast as an older 5400rpm hard drive of similar capacity. From what I see around the forums, it's still not stable enough to be relied on for backup even though the Orb drives have been on the market for about two years. I've also heard rumors of a larger capacity drive (this just in! there is a 5.7GB version - but site says "temp. O-O-S") - but with DVD recorders coming down in price I don't know how long the Orb can remain a semi-viable option.
.bh.


p.s. If putting the EIDE Orb on the same cable with a Wesgtern Digital drive, be sure to change the jumpers on the WD to "Master w/Slave"! The WDs are about the only ones to have diff. jumper settings for Master-Stand Alone and Master w/Slave. :disgust:
. Or set both to Cable Select (assuming you have a CS cable).bh.

 

[Brute]

This is on a separate IDE connector. IDE0 has the hard drive and CDROM. It's a backup system so performance isn't an issue here. The Orb is on IDE1, all by itself. BIOS sees it fine.