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Orange Micro Orange Converter Quick Review
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Bountiful, Utah, USA
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I was waiting for someone else to buy the Orange Micro Orange Converter so I could read their review but I guess I'll be the Guinea Pig.
Okay, Orange Micro Firewire to SCSI converter used on my G4 Macintosh. Price is about $104 with shipping from Orange Micro's site. You might shave off a couple of dollars by comparison shopping.
The box says you need System 9.04 and Firewire 2.3.3. I only have System 8.6 and Firewire 2.1.1 but it works on my G4 Macintosh. I can't tell what improvements you might have by upgrading the software.
The Orange Converter can only be hooked to one SCSI device at a time; no chains.
I managed to hook up a Zip 100 Drive and then an external SCSI CD-ROM. The manual says something about hot pluggability but I found it easier just to treat the thing like it was a traditional SCSI device. I turned on the peripheral and then I turned on the Computer. It took a little longer than usual (about a minute) but eventually the devices showed up on the SCSI 2 bus.
My main purpose in getting the Orange Converter was to free up the PCI slot where my Adaptec SCSI card was. I'm a MIDI person and there was a music PCI card that I wanted to put there. So music people may want to pay attention. The Adaptec card was mainly used for sending AIFF/WAV, etc. samples to some music samplers I have (Yamaha Samplers) using the SDMI transfer protocol. I use the freeware TWE editors from Yamaha (TWE standing for Tiny wave editor). After turning on the samplers then the computer I launched TWE and it immediately saw the SCSI bus. I transferred my music samples as usual. It was as fast as the Adaptec.
Bottom line. It works.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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greg66666,
you say it's as fast as your Adaptec card...which card do you have?
tr
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Bountiful, Utah, USA
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I have the 2906, 10 MB/second card. I'm not a heavy duty user so it was good enough for me.
Originally posted by tr:
greg66666,
you say it's as fast as your Adaptec card...which card do you have?
tr
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Freedom,CA,USA
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Thanks you guys, I just ordered one for my new cube, it will save my scsi Yamaha 8x4x32 CDRW now all I need is more meory and a set of isticks
This Cube is the most gorgeous object I have ever purchased
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Man is only mud that sat up
"Vonnegut"
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Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Freedom,CA,USA
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I now have two of the Orange Micro Firewire/SCSI converters and they are great, using Yamaha 8x4x24 ext CD-RW drives, my Cube mounts the disks quickly and I have not had any trouble burning data or audio. I swear by Orange Micro and would be very skeptical about any USB/ SCSI solutions
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Man is only mud that sat up
"Vonnegut"
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SpinyNorman
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It performs as advertised. I, too, was skeptical but it works great with the Yamaha burners (at least the two I tried). Also, it's a relative bargain for $89 at Outpost, shipped overnight.
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