"kosma@BLAISE.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM"@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com (09/12/89)
Received: from BLAISE.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM by ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM via CHAOS with CHAOS-MAIL id 38725; Mon 11-Sep-89 10:50:05 PDT Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 10:44 PDT From: <kosma@BLAISE.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM> Subject: connecting two Amiga 2000's to transfer files To: "eagle::amiga-relay%udel.edu"@KAHUNA.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM Message-ID: <"19890911174403.2.kosma@BLAISE"@BLAISE.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM> Hi net... A friend of mine just got a new 2000HD and we wanted to transfer some stuff from my hard disk to his. I'm looking for suggestions on how to do so. Both amigas have st506 drives with the a2090(a) controller card. Here's what I've come up with: 1. Remove one of the hard drives and connect both to one amiga. The problem is that this requires a special daisy-chain cable which we haven't been able to find, yet. 2. Connect the amigas via the serial port and transfer the files. The questions I have about this are first, what software do I need to have on the amiga which is SENDING the data? I figure I can run some telecommunications program with an xmodem or zmodem on the receiving end (I have vt100 and AZcomm); will running the same thing at the other end sync up okay? Or do I need some sort of a "Server" program like a BBS? Second, it would be nice to be able to either use wildcards or set up a script to run the whole thing unattended. 3. transfer with floppies. This is easy but obviously quite slow. thanks for any suggestions! EMAIL would be appreciated as I tend to get it much faster than comp.sys.amiga. If it bounces back, try the second address (our server machine has been having hardware trouble lately...) thanks!! Monty kosma kosma@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com le03472@kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com