lhotka@incstar.uucp (02/13/91)
I was just skimming throuhg some flyers I have laying around and ran across one from a company called Adaptec, Inc. from Milpitas, CA. These people sell an ethernet interface which connects to a Mac SCSI port. The device is about the size of a modem and connects via thick, thin or twisted pair ethernet. I wonder if this would work with the Amiga via a SCSI port? Has anyone ever tried such an experiment? Then again, the cost is around $600, so it is an expensive experiment... ______________________________________________________________________ / Rockford Lhotka INCSTAR Corp \ | Applications Project Leader 1990 Industrial Blvd | | incstar!lhotka@uunet.uu.net PO Box 285 | \ 612/779-1701 Stillwater, MN 55082 / -------------Amiga - The computer for the creative mind.--------------
daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) (02/20/91)
In article <2595.27b922fc@incstar.uucp> lhotka@incstar.uucp writes: >I was just skimming throuhg some flyers I have laying around and ran across >one from a company called Adaptec, Inc. from Milpitas, CA. >These people sell an ethernet interface which connects to a Mac SCSI port. >I wonder if this would work with the Amiga via a SCSI port? I imagine it could work just dandy with any Amiga scsi.device that supports the scsi direct command mechanism. However, there's typically a big pile of software necessary to do anything real useful with Ethernet. While there's some kind of work going on designed to make network filesystems, transfer protocols, and device drivers hook up as easily as disk filesystems and device drivers, currently everyone is doing it differently. If you just wanted two Amigas to talk to each other, you might port DNET or something, which could be easy depending on what kind of support the SCSI layer adds to the raw Ethernet. For real Ethernet that hooks up to the rest of the world, you need TCP/IP, and at least the Berkeley communication tools (ftp, etc.), or a filesystem like NFS (mainly what we use around here over C= A2065 Ethernet cards). >/ Rockford Lhotka INCSTAR Corp \ -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "What works for me might work for you" -Jimmy Buffett