Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Accessing PC cards from Amiga (also, NFS)?
Keywords: BridgeBoard, PC, Amiga, Ethernet, NFS, Ameristar
Message-ID: <228@becker.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 89 18:27:05 GMT
References: <2482@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <86118@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <86118@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <2482@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> (Michael A. Garvin) writes:
>Paraphrased : "Can you accesses NFS via the janus.library ?" and
>              "What do you think of the Ameristar product ?"
>
>Yes, I suppose your could access NFS partitions via a PC-NFS setup.
>You would have get PC-NFS running first (using autoexec.bat) on the
>PC side, then use Jlink or whatever on the Amiga side to connect to
>it. However when you realize that the cost of PC-NFS is the same as
>Amiga-NFS (which includes the hardware) you would note that the 
>native Amiga-NFS is the way to go. I use Amiga-NFS here at Sun and
>it is quite useful and does everything I would expect it to. At 
>some time I hope to be able to mount the Amiga as a server although
>that is currently not possible. The Ameristar product has run flawlessly
>for me and Ameristar has been quite helpful in answering any questions
>I had. So I'm completely pleased.

	A lot of Canadians (as well as others) have stuck
	with 1000/Sidecar setups, which doesn't allow the
	use of A2000 peripherals.  There is a performance
	hit using the PC-NFS  due to the slowness  of the
	8088 cpu doing the data transfers -  but the cost
	of the Ameristar board is *very* high compared to
	the equivalent  PC-based products.  The future is
	likely to centre around SCSI-based hardware  if I
	am not mistaken -  the thing to do here is to try
	to ensure  in the long run  that  SCSI access and
	control is more or less standardised on a subrou-
	tine level...

	I know the Sidecar is  "obsolete",  and Dr. Rubin
	wants the A1000 to be buried,  but lots are still
	happy with theirs...  so please don't flame about
	not upgrading to A2000, it's partly a "religious"
	issue up here (& elsewhere, I suspect).

>--Chuck McManis
>uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis   BIX: cmcmanis  ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com
>These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.

Cheers,
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