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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC-NFS & UB's NIU Board (again!)
Message-ID: <2311@east.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 31 Jul 90 18:11:19 GMT
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Organization: Sun Microsystems PC-NFS Engineering
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Quoth perl@pbseps.PacBell.COM (Richard Perlman) (in <1990Jul19.165457.29921@PacBell.COM>):
#
#According to the PC-NFS manual (3.1 or whatever is current) the
#UB NIU board is supported with "special software" available from
#Ungermann-Bass.
#
#According to Ungermann-Bass they have a product called "NDIS" (~$50)
#that loads into the NIU card and sort-of turns it into a NIC board.
#But, while it's "sort-of" like a NIC board, you can't just install
#PC-NFS for the NIC.  UB says I need to get some "special driver" from
#SUN to use NDIS, PC-NFS and the NIC.  And, this is the best part,...
#they've never tested it!!  But, says UB, "it probably works" because
#they wrote it to SUN's specs.

No comment on UB... However, the PC-NFS NDIS driver is part of the
PC-NFS driver compatibility kit available from Clarkson and elsewhere,
and it will be in the next release of PC-NFS.

-- Geoff Arnold, PC-NFS architect, Sun Microsystems. (geoff@East.Sun.COM)   --
** Back in the USA after a month in England. Most memorable scene: visiting **
** the "Duke Humfrey" library (part of the Bodleian in Oxford): wonderful   **
** 15th century ceiling, incanabulae and desks, the latter with PCs on...   **