garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) (11/15/90)
I apologize in advance if this has been beat to death or
is in a FAQ posting. There's no way I can keep up with the
volume here (and still do other things :-).
I have an Amiga 1000 that I wish to connect to an 030 NeXT box
using thin-wire Ethernet (or possible twisted-pair after the 040
upgrade). Has anyone done something similar to this who would
like to share the details? What I'd really like is a transceiver-like
device that would plug into the Amiga's parallel port (or other port)
and associated software to provide a disk device driver that can
speak NFS.
Please email any suggestions (including FAQ's and/or copies of
old questions).
Thanks.
--
John Garnett
University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu Department of Computer Science
Austin, Texasthad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (11/15/90)
garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) in <54@cheetah.cs.utexas.edu>
writes:
I have an Amiga 1000 that I wish to connect to an 030 NeXT box
using thin-wire Ethernet (or possible twisted-pair after the 040
upgrade). Has anyone done something similar to this who would
like to share the details? What I'd really like is a transceiver-like
device that would plug into the Amiga's parallel port (or other port)
and associated software to provide a disk device driver that can
speak NFS.
Adaptec, Inc. (691 S. Milpitas Blvd.; Milpitas CA 95035; 408/945-2518 ext. 105)
has been advertising a device named "Nodem" which is a SCSI-to-Ethernet LAN
interface; from its picture it appears to be approx. 2"W x 6"H x 6"D in a
reasonably attractive free-standing case (much like that of an external modem).
Per their ads:
`` ... Because unlike Ethernet cards, the Nodem sits outside and plugs
into the SCSI port ... and your expansion slots remain free for
other important functions. From there, the Nodem plugs directly
[onto your Ethernet] via twisted-pair, or thick or thin Ethernet
cables. You're off and running at a sizzling 10 MBps.
...
Pricing starts at $545.
''
Of course, it's extremely unlikely they provide any software for the Amiga,
and you're also at the mercy of whomever's SCSI adapter you've interfaced to
the Amiga concerning either device or handler software.
Other than that (unless you can find one of the old Ameristar expansion "desks"
for the A1000 into which you can plug the Ameristar Zorro Ethernet card), I
don't believe anyone made a SOTS Ethernet card for the A1000.
If anyone knows of SOTS Ethercard cards for the A1000, I'd be interested, since
using RS-232-C NIU adapters at 19,200 baud on a StarLAN network is not exactly
my idea of "network connectivity." :-)
Thad
P.S. "SOTS = Slap On The Side"; the type of external expansion typically used
on the A1000.
Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) (11/16/90)
In article <54@cheetah.cs.utexas.edu> garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes: > What I'd really like is a transceiver-like > device that would plug into the Amiga's parallel port (or other port) > and associated software to provide a disk device driver that can > speak NFS. Well, there are products like this available to hook laptop IBM clones to Ethernet. I think it'd be a matter of getting one of them with enough specs to write the driver yourself... Never said it'd be easy. I'd love to have problems like that, by the way. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.