Emplant card

[melott]

I bought an A2000 awhile back that had this card in it.
The machine had 2 HD's with one drive dedicated to this
card. I haven't been able to get into the drive to see
what is on it or if its Apple or MS Dos.

Anyone know anything about these cards ?

[Plaz]

There's more info at this link...

Emplant


Plaz

[melott]

@Plaz
Yes.. I've seen that...
What I'd like is some input from someone who has
used an Emplant card.

[billchase]

If one of the drives is connected to the Emplant, then it
is probably MacOS formatted.  Fusion and Shapeshifter both
support the Emplant board, though you probably have to select
the emplant scsi device under the SCSI prefs in either program.
As far as trying to snoop around without Mac emulation will
probably require something like CrossMAC unless someone
else knows how to access a Mac formatted hard drive under
AmigaOS.

C Snyder


 

[melott]

Both drives were connect to the A2091 card.
So it sounds like the card was used for MS Dos.
Unless I mis-understand the docs, there should be a
rom image in Devs, but I'm not finding it.
How do I get it to boot up ?

After reading the docs, it sounds like it could be an
interesting card, possibily being able to do selectable
booting (Apple or MS Dos).

[billchase]

Unless the emplant has the extra 586 module, it is mainly a
mac emulation board.  I don't know about a ROM image in the
DEVS drawer, but to use any Mac emulation, you will need
the ROM image from a real 68k MAC, either a 512Kb or 1024Kb
image.

C Snyder