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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: SCSI ethernet
Message-ID: <19119@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 20:47:25 GMT
References: <2595.27b922fc@incstar.uucp>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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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).

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