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From: ewilts@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2000 -> A500+A590 connection possible?
Message-ID: <1991May14.144122.8213@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca>
Date: 14 May 91 20:41:22 GMT
References: <9923@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: BC Systems Corporation, Victoria, B.C.
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In article <9923@star.cs.vu.nl>, peraue@cs.vu.nl (Raue Paul Erik) writes:
> Would it be possible to attach an amiga 500 plus A590 harddrive to an amiga
> 2000 via either the serial or parallel port and access the harddisk A590 from
> my 2000. And is it possible to address the memory of the 500 via the 2000?

Check out PARnet from Matt Dillon.  It will do what you want, but you will not
get performance like the drive was local.  I believe that tests around 20K
bytes per second were achieved (it's been a few years since I've seen two
Amigas connected this way).  Directories are a lot faster compared to floppy
directory searches, but data transfer is slow.

> Thank you for your time, bandwidth and more.... Paul-Erik Raue (peraue@cs.vu.nl)

BTW, please reduce the length of your signature.  10 lines is a little much...

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