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From: lkelly@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lawrence Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
Subject: Question about RMX/Multibus to Macx interfacing
Message-ID: <7712@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 13 May 91 21:38:25 GMT
Reply-To: lkelly@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lawrence Kelly)
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD
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Okay, I've got a question that has been perplexing the guys in
my division (data collection) for weeks.  Currently, another
group has an Intel RMX system with a multibus backplane.  We
need to get data from this system's hard drive to a Macintosh
IIfx system.  Does anyone know what would be the easiest (cost
effective) solution to this problem?  Also, we have a tape drive
on the RMX, and are using that to backup to hard drive.  We
would like a solution that just allowed us to take the tape's
from the rmx, and put them into a reader on the mac, but not sure
if the interface/software is available to do that easily.  The
other option is using Ethernet (FTP or NFS), but not sure if that
is available for RMX either.  Whatever the solution, it must be
fast, as we will be transferring about 60 meg per hour to the mac.
(BTW, using the mac to do the collection was ruled out as the
RMX station is already in place, and has custom software that
would be expensive to remake on the mac).

	 Thanx for you help,

	 Larry (lkelly@oasys.dt.navy.mil)