Why would you have bought an A560?

[rkauer]

 If no server to boot the machine remotely, pretty much identical to the standard machine. :roll:

[sim085]

and with a server to boot the machine remotely? You would get a workbench installed on that machine? Something like a Terminal? Did workbench already support networking back then!?

[darksun9210]

neither the GVP HD8, or 530 have pass throughs :-( unless you count the internal 100 pin header...

i wonder... if you get some old PC arcnet card, could winUAE be setup as a boot server for an A560 equiped machine? but then would a machine with ISA slots be fast enough to run winUAE?... argh! :crazy:

i think the amiga missed a trick with missing out onboard networking. i know its not ethernet, but its how the ol' BBC and Archy got into schools so easy.   :-)

[clemenza]

If I remember correctly the GVP hd's had pass throughs as well

Well, unfortunately, they didn't! I have both the HC8+ and the Impact A500 - neither of them has a pass-through connector. There are very few sidecar expansions for the A500 with passthrough connectors, and HDD controllers rarely belong to that few expansions...

[sim085]

Sorry to bring this up again, but does anyone know what a user would have seen when booting from a server? Did anyone ever try this?

[tone007]

Supradrive 500XP has a passthrough.

...speaking of which, anyone interesting in purchasing one, send me a PM.

[kolla]

sim085 wrote:
Sorry to bring this up again, but does anyone know what a user would have seen when booting from a server? Did anyone ever try this?

It would look just like booting from a floppy or hard disk, I guess. Only difference would be that the boot device would be a network share instead of floppy/hard disk.

[Tension]

kolla wrote:

sim085 wrote:
Sorry to bring this up again, but does anyone know what a user would have seen when booting from a server? Did anyone ever try this?

It would look just like booting from a floppy or hard disk, I guess. Only difference would be that the boot device would be a network share instead of floppy/hard disk.

And it would be slow as {bleep}

[Tahoe]

Actually, it wasn't all together that bad! Coming from a floppy based system and having fiddled only with Parnet and that sort of network the ARCnet felt quite snappy!

Obviously not as fast as Ethernet, but still not bad transfering files. I even used them with my BBS to park download files on a seperate machine. A little like a very early version of a NAS

[Metalguy66]

Yeah.. Its too bad they never made an A565...

I believe the hyrda "sidecar" for the A500 was arcnet as well..

[Tahoe]

Metalguy66 wrote:
Yeah.. Its too bad they never made an A565...

I believe the hyrda "sidecar" for the A500 was arcnet as well..

Nope. I've got one, it's Ethernet alright.
Inside it is basically a Zorro 2 Hydra card.

[Metalguy66]

You are right about that.. What the hell was I thinking..

Kewl looking case on that Hydranet unit too.. GVP also resold it with their name-badge.. It's too bad that niether the Hydranet 500 or any of GVP's HDD sidecars had zorro passthrough...