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As the third partition on the ORB disk (SC5:2) had only 70 minutes available, I opted to copy all 15 songs from IDE:2 to the first partition of a second ORB disk, leaving the entire 540 minutes of the second partition (SC5:1) of the second disk available, plus 70 minutes on SC5:2. I then copied all 11 songs from IDE:1 to the ORB’s second partition (SC5:1). It only took about a minute or so per song to copy the data, and the VS880-EX showed the progress by displaying the song number and percent completed (13 or 14 minutes for the entire process). Talk about backup! IDE:0 and SC5:0 were exact duplicates of each other. I selected the first song on drive (partition) IDE:0, punched “Song” until “copy” came up, selected ‘Playable”, then “All” and all 9 songs on IDE:0 copied to the ORB’s first partition (SC5:0), showing the exact same 29 minutes of remaining recording time as IDE:0 on the hard drive showed.
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Not bad for a thirty buck disk!Īll three partitions on my internal drive were full (35 songs) and I wanted to copy all the songs to the ORB.
2 Gig) just leaving room for one small song. The third showed about 70 minutes (the remaining. The first two were exactly like partitions on the hard drive showing the same 540 minutes of record time (1 Gig) as the hard drive partitions: room enough for 10 – 15 songs. The 2.2 Gig disk was divided into three partitions: SC5:0, SC5:1 and SC5:2 – in less than 10 seconds! The first two partitions were 1 Gig each, and the second. The ORB operated just like the internal hard drive.
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The drive was recognized, and it only took about ten seconds to initiate the entire 2.2 Gig disk – as opposed to the ten minutes the manual says it takes to initiate a 100 MB Zip disk. When I hooked the ORB up to the VS-880-EX everything looked good. This proved to be a poor (but not fatal) decision. So, as the ORB literature stated the drive was internally terminated and did not need to be externally terminated, I decided to ignore Roland’s recommendation and go home and give it a shot without the terminator. The store also didn’t have a 50-pin terminator. I couldn’t find a SCSI 2 -> SCSI 1 adapter and had to settle for a $45 SCSI 1 / SCSI 2 cable. Wanting to be able to use my new drive as soon as possible, money became no object, and I gave up on the Internet and headed for the local computer mega-store. After waiting for over a week, I was still out of business! I called and they agreed to allow me to return the two incorrect items, but they didn’t have what I needed. Not good! More bad news: the terminator had 62 pins. I needed a 50-pin female / 25 pin male adapter and the one I received was the opposite gender. The drive arrived in a miraculous two days, but I couldn’t use it yet, as I needed the adapter and terminator, which both arrived on day 8. So, even though it originally looked like I could buy a drive for $161 and be up and running, with the extra disks and other junk I was out $308.78.Īll four items were each shipped from different warehouses. A Roland rep told me that, despite the ORB (supposedly) being internally terminated, I need to use an external terminator plug, so I also ordered one ($51.99). More problems to overcome: the ORB’s I/O and furnished cable are SCSI 2 (50 pins) and the VS880-EX’s are SCSI 1 (25 pins), so I also ordered an adapter ($10.99). I finally found disks available at and ordered the drive ($179.95) and two extra disks ($29.95 each). The first three or four dealers I checked with had a six-month back order for disks (if it says “call” under “availability”, you better do it). I quickly found the disks are in short supply. Unfortunately, getting a (usable) product wasn’t quite that easy or cheap. The ORB drive comes with one removable 2.2 Gig disk and extra disks are only about $30 a pop: dirt-cheap compared to Zip disks equaling the comparable space. I found an ORB 2.2 Gig external SCSI drive on the net for only $161 – about the cost of a 100 MB or 250 MB Zip drive. This allows you to copy all the songs on an entire drive (partition) from the hard drive to the ORB and have the ORB’s drive (partition) look exactly the same as the original drive (partition). The 1 Gig partitions (drives) are even exactly the same size (540 recording minutes). You can work from the ORB just like it is the internal hard drive (it actually is a hard drive). It’s like having another hard drive – only with infinite, portable, space. Nevertheless, it is definitely the way to go.
After taking this excellent advice I decided to pass along a few tips on using the ORB drive in the hope of helping others avoid the problems I encountered.įirst of all, let me say that the ORB works like a champ – once you find everything needed to hook it up, which, for me, wasn’t easy. A few weeks ago someone recommended using the Castlewood ORB 2.2 Gig external SCSI drive with the Roland VS880-EX for song backup / additional working space.
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