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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.graphics,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Ethernet working for Amiga 500
Keywords: Ethernet,NFS
Message-ID: <3802@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 88 08:49:16 GMT
References: <1931@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1931@ssc-vax.UUCP> pauld@ssc-vax.UUCP (Paul Donahue) writes:
> 
> I have just got Ethernet (Telnet, ftp,and NFS (Network File System)) to 
> work with my Amiga 500 here at Boeing Areospace.  I used the Pacific
> Peripherals Subsystem with the Ameristar Ethernet Board.  According to 
> Ameristar I'm the first one with this configuration.  How nice it is
> to be able to quickly transfer files between a Sun and a VAX directly
> from an Amiga window. 

Great.  Please try to persuade the Ameristar people that it is really
worth their while to to make an A500 version of their ethernet i/f.
I've been working on them for a while, but examples of people who
actually connect the A500 directly to the ether would be helpful.

> 	It appears the system works reliably.  The Subsystem Power
> Supply has a +12v output which I connected to pin 10 of the 86 pin 
> Subsystem enclosure while opening this same line to the A500.  This was 
> done because the A500 +12 volt supply is so 'whimpy'.

I'm confused.  The power supply that comes with this Pacific Peripherals
product has a +12 output, but it's not normally hooked up?

In any case opening the +12 connection to the A500 if you supply
power to the interface is the right approach (+5 and -12 also).  The
output of two random power supplies hooked together isn't healthy.

-- 
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