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From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Ethernet
Message-ID: <341@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 88 06:21:21 GMT
References: <478@nikhefh.hep.nl> <374@clio.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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In article <374@clio.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
>There's something called an EtherportSC, (from 3com, I think) intended
>for a Mac really, but it's an ethernet adapter that attaches to a SCSI
>port. Might be usable, provided you could get enough docs to write a
>driver for it on the ST...

My understanding is that this board uses more SCSI than the Atari
AHDI interface supports.  Atari implements enough to allow Level 0 SCSI
and the ethernet board requires more intelligent SCSI, I think.

Anyway I don't think it's possible to use these ethernet<->SCSI boards
without hacking the AHDI hardware or at the very least buidling your
own SCSI adapter and designing a new protocol.  Of course I could be
wrong.

Someone who might know more is Chris at BMS (bms@bdt).
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