W0L@PSUVM.BITNET (Bill Lasher) (08/08/89)
We have a lab of SGI personal IRIS machines. We would like to attach a PC so w e can transfer CADKEY files from DOS based PC's. We have the opportunity to ge t two ATT 7300's for free, but we don't know much about them. Can the ATT read DOS files without a special board? What would it take to hook them up to the SGI ethernet (running TCP/IP, NFS)? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
grant@clleth.UUCP (Grant Fengstad) (08/10/89)
In article <89220.115610W0L@PSUVM>, W0L@PSUVM.BITNET (Bill Lasher) writes: > We have a lab of SGI personal IRIS machines. We would like to attach a PC so w > e can transfer CADKEY files from DOS based PC's. We have the opportunity to ge > t two ATT 7300's for free, but we don't know much about them. Can the ATT read > DOS files without a special board? What would it take to hook them up to the > SGI ethernet (running TCP/IP, NFS)? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am not aware of any support for the 3B1/7300 to co-exist with TCP/IP or NFS. The box has a proprietary bus and the only expansion cards that I have heard of are RAM, rs-232 and AT&T Starlan. The 7300 will read DOS files (only 360K format) and allow you to copy them to the Unix file system. Feasibly, you could connect the box Asynchronously. -- Grant M. Fengstad "The ideas expressed are my own - not my employers" Sr. CSR, Systems Integration - ComputerLand (Canada) UUCP: !uunet!{ubc-cs|utai}!calgary!xenlink!clroslyn!clleth!grant "There's nothing worse than a confirmed fanatic"
marsella@athos.rutgers.edu (Stacy Marsella) (08/12/89)
There was an ethernet board made for the 7300, as well as TCP/IP software (no nfs - as far as I know). The software was done by Wollengong (sp?). I know because we are presently using the boards/software. Stacy Marsella