Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!nstn.ns.ca!cs.dal.ca!silvert From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Transfer files between PC and IRIS? Summary: Ethernet connection query Message-ID: <1991Apr9.124403.2358@cs.dal.ca> Date: 9 Apr 91 12:44:03 GMT References: <1991Apr5.222307.5567@eng.umd.edu> <1991Apr5.232621.86@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert) Reply-To: bill%biome@cs.dal.ca Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography Lines: 19 In article <1991Apr5.232621.86@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> rxcob@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Owen Baker) writes: > >Why not spend a little extra and get an ethernet card for the PC. There are >plenty of public domain PC ethernet drivers around with telnet and FTP >support which is much faster then an RS232 connection. Im assuming here that >your Iris has an ethernet port. 8 bit ethernet cards for PC's can purchased in >Australia for $200-$300 and probably less OS. Is this as simple as it sounds? I have a PI 4D/25 with an ethernet port and a WD card for my 386 and absolutely no knowledge about ethernet. I've been informed that the PI connector is thick wire and the BNC T-connector on the WD card is thin wire, so that I need an expensive interface box as well as the cables. Is this correct? I would dearly love to connect the two machines, but funds are limited. -- William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2. Tel. (902)426-1577 UUCP=..!{uunet|watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill BITNET=bill%biomel%dalcs@dalac InterNet=bill%biomel@cs.dal.ca