Yay! Got an ethernet card

[lymang]

Well I managed to snag an A2065 for my A2000.  I think it was a pretty good deal off eBay, 81 dollars with shipping.  I hope to receive it soon!  Now I need a hard drive for my A2000.  I see one on Ebay and am going to consider it.

Lyman

[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

[Matt_H]

Careful, though. The GVP cards may need special GVP SIMMs, which are extremely rare these days.

[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

[Matt_H]

@ Patrik

Really? Hey, neat. Might be time to get my GVP fleet back together :-)

[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

[spavatch]

Well I managed to snag an A2065 for my A2000.

You lucky dog! Congratulations! :-)

[leofoe]

lymang wrote:
Well I managed to snag an A2065 for my A2000.  I think it was a pretty good deal off eBay, 81 dollars with shipping.  I hope to receive it soon!  Now I need a hard drive for my A2000.  I see one on Ebay and am going to consider it. Lyman

Congrats. But please limit your expectations if you want to use it surfing the web with an A2000. But it's very good for transferring files.

[tashko]

That's funny. I think you beat me at the buzzer. I bid on that at the last second. The search continues...

[lymang]

Yeah.  I saw someone put a bid in at the last second.  If that was you, then you should know I wanted that card - I wasn't bidding at the last second, just watching.  I had a high enough bid in (I think) to cover whatever someone else would bid in those last few seconds.

I haven't gotten it installed yet, but soon.

[tomswift]

Hi,

Glad to see there are still people interested in connecting their Amiga's up.  I hate to be an ambulance chaser but If you or anyone is interested, I have three Hydra ethernet cards for sale.  Looking to get $50 apiece for them.  Exact shipping/insurance would be extra.  Sorry USA only.

somtwift  

[nyteschayde]

As Patrik knows I recently picked up an HC+8 as well. There are quite a few of them floating around eBay as of late. I'd take a look there if I were you.

If you absolutely cannot find anything I do have an old Dataflyer 500. It "seems" to be non-bootable in my A4K but auto-booted fine in my old A500.

It doesn't offer any RAM expansion nor an external 50-pin port so like I said and absolute last solution.

[lymang]

leofoe wrote:

lymang wrote:
Well I managed to snag an A2065 for my A2000.  I think it was a pretty good deal off eBay, 81 dollars with shipping.  I hope to receive it soon!  Now I need a hard drive for my A2000.  I see one on Ebay and am going to consider it. Lyman

Congrats. But please limit your expectations if you want to use it surfing the web with an A2000. But it's very good for transferring files.

I don't particularly care about surfing so much as downloading amiga files from the web.  I have little need to use it for surfing.  If I can get a functional browser at almost any level that will suffice for the amiga.  Alternately, I'll be happy if I can use it to transfer files from my PC faster than over the serial port. :-)

[ErrethAkbe]

I don't particularly care about surfing so much as downloading amiga files from the web.  I have little need to use it for surfing.  If I can get a functional browser at almost any level that will suffice for the amiga.  Alternately, I'll be happy if I can use it to transfer files from my PC faster than over the serial port. :-)

This is exactly what I use mine for. Also, it's very handy to have for transferring files to and from other computers on my network. For that, I have variously used AmigaSamba, FTP and AmigaExplorer for the job. All work fine but have advantages and disadvantages.

The driver I am using is here. I've tried the others on AmiNet and this one works the best for me.

HTH,

Marc

[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