Yay! Got an ethernet card

[patrik]

@lymang:

Congrats! .

Regarding harddrive-controllers I would recommend one which also gives a memory-expansion like the GVP HC+8 or the C= A2091. The HC+8 would be the best one of those two as it can be expanded up to 8MB ram with quite-easy-to-find 1MB 30-pin simms compared to the A2091 which can be expanded up to 2MB in the form of sixteen 256kx4 dip chips.

Both of those are dma harddrive controllers and in the league of Zorro2 harddrive controllers, they are among the fastest. The HC+8 is as far as I know the fastest of all Zorro2 harddrive controllers as it can transfer data to the onboard fastram directly without accessing the Zorro2 bus.

Stay clear of the C= A2090 as it doesnt follow any standards, have serious limitations and on top of that just works bad if you use anything else than xt harddrives.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Matt_H:

Nope, all their Zorro2 harddrive controllers uses 30-pin simms. Almost all their A2000 030 and 040 accelerators with 32-bit fastram uses the special 64-pin gvp simms though.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@Matt_H:

Yep really - check them out here. There are actually only two harddrive controllers made by gvp that contains a memory expansion. Of those the HC+8 is by far the most common.


/Patrik

[patrik]

@ErrethAkbe:

You should consider doing it the other way around using smbfs to mount your pcs shares on your Amiga as normal volumes instead, which imho is a much more practical solution, and forget about running the Amiga as a samba server.

Smbfs also consists of just one executable file without any direct installation needed and has good performance - this in contrast with samba which is an arse to configure and performs about as good as a retarded elk.


/Patrik