Hi my friends.
I am in the process in rebuilding my mighty A2000 for good. It will be eating electricity again in a few days now and will be full of rare and expensive boards (pictures to come) 
I need advice about the best choice for a network card.
I have here:
- an HydraNet rev 1.1 zorro board
- an untested ARIADNE 1 which also comes with a parallel port
- a Deneb board that could be hooked to an USB-RJ45 adapter but obviously in Zorro 2 mode only (it would at least free a zorro slot for a VLab board)
Which solution would perform the faster and the better (i am thinking of a multiboot system with 3.1 and 2.04)?
Thanks for your help on that matter.
The ariadne1 is a excellent board, use it. Some hydra's had problems,but early ones mostly in some z3 machines(they are a bit slower than others). Deneb is a good investment regardless. Realise using ethernet thru the deneb on z2 is probabaly going to have some overhead. I've used the linksys mm200 dongles with deneb with no troubles.I seem to get roughly the same thruput as the true zorro card but it uses a bit more cpu. if u have the ariadne use it.add a deneb for everything else.
stick with 3.1 roms and workbench,i cant see anything 2.x would be needed for? if anything 1.3 for compatibility of old old old stuff might be more usefull.
mike
