ethernet on Amiga 500?

[adolescent]

orange wrote:
....and you can get cool looking round cables.quote]

You've never seen round SCSI cables?   :hammer:

[InTheSand]

mechy wrote:
The A1000 will surf the internet without missing a beat...

Does it look like this?  :-)

(sorry!)

 - Ali

[AMC258]

I have a round (imagine that) SCSI cable as old as my Amiga that has an internal connector on one end, and internal connector on the other end, *and* an external connector on one end and and external connector on the other end.  It only has two ends.  It connects my CyberStormPPC SCSI-3 internal connector of my wide open A3000UX to the external connector of my faster-than-his-IDE SCSI RAID array.  Granted my RAID array currently only has 50 some gigabytes, but, everything I have is in duplicate and I still have plenty of space.

[mechy]

Its been a while since i had the 1000 up and surfing,but if memory serves,I set ibrowse2.3 to use only fast ram on the A1000/viper and turned chip off.. This got me around the chip ram problem for the most part. Dont get me wrong,browsing on a limited system with ocs chipset is anything but pleasureable,but it does do it reliably.The whole point was to see if it could be done for me

Doesn't the viper take a chip ram expansion on its header? i seem to recall reading something about this? Or is it just A1000 incompatible?

Mechy

[mr_a500]

Its been a while since i had the 1000 up and surfing,but if memory serves,I set ibrowse2.3 to use only fast ram on the A1000/viper and turned chip off.. This got me around the chip ram problem for the most part. Dont get me wrong,browsing on a limited system with ocs chipset is anything but pleasureable,but it does do it reliably.The whole point was to see if it could be done for me :

I wonder if the stock A1000 is slower than the stock A500 or not. If not, and the Viper 520 card is fitted and somehow the Mini Megi could be added, then browsing on an A1000 can be exactly like it is on my A500. (here and here)

It's definitely much more impressive to show off to those Mac and Windows freaks "Look what I can do with the first Amiga from 1985" than to say it's from a 1987 A500.

Doesn't the viper take a chip ram expansion on its header? i seem to recall reading something about this? Or is it just A1000 incompatible?

As you know there's a jumper on the Viper for Mini Megi, but no slot on the card for one. I already installed my Mini Megi before I got the card and I vaguely remember the manual said not to bother with the jumper if you've already got it. So I don't know what the jumper is actually for and don't know how you could add a Mini Megi to the card. The A1000 Agnus is not a PLCC chip so can't install Mini Megi on the motherboard. The A1000 Agnus would have to be bypassed somehow with Mini Megi on a separate card.

Anybody out there have an A1000 with 2Mb Chip?

[Motormouth]

You could use a slingshot pro between the A500 and the A530 and your favorate zorro II ethernet card (ie a2065).

Not a very pretty solution, but it would work well.

I had an a500, a slingshot-pro, a GVP a500+, an a2065 (with an aui,thick ethernet, to 10baseT transceiver), a gvp 286, and a VXL*030 working for about a year and a half, until I bought an A3000, as expected the a2065 got quickly moved.

The only expansion they made for the gvp expansion slot was that gvp 286 (basically an atonce plus), however if memory serves the gvp expansion slot header had all the signals necessary to make a zorro II adapter.

[rkauer]

Why not use a SCSI net? Put a SCSI card on your server and link it to the A500's SCSI and you have a fast conection! :-D

[Matt_H]

Arg! All these solutions are so complicated! Just get an A500Clockports module from Jens Schoenfeld, a Subway, and a USB->Ethernet device. Problem solved. No need to muck about with new drives or drive controllers.

[rkauer]

Matt, a SubWay (US$100), 500ClockPort (+55), USB/Ethernet (+???), easyly cost more than 200 Bucks!  :-o

A cheap SCSI card for the server: less than 20 on Ebay. A "null-SCSI" chord: maybe 40. :-D

That's why I suggest this: economics!

[Matt_H]

Amiga ain't a cheap hobby ;-)

[rkauer]

Matt_H wrote:
Amiga ain't a cheap hobby ;-)

I know it. :-(

Then why not prefer the cheapeast way when you can? :-?

[Tomas]

I decided to change from SCSI to IDE, because IDE is simply better.

Are you joking? And no wonder why you experienced a speed increase in some areas, considering that you compared a very old 4gig with a brand new ide disk. Not only is scsi faster, but the disks are usually way more reliable, which is one of the reason for the higher price tag. Professionals usually use scsi for this very reason and the fact that it gives much better perfomance, especially when it comes to multitasking. The fact they run hotter, is because they spin much faster due to them having higher perfomance.
I would like to see a high end web server using ide under alot of load... You are damn lucky if you get a few years from a modern ide disk before it starts failing.

I use ide/sata in my pc only because i am poor and need alot of space.

[cv643d]

Can you run USB-ethernet devices on Amiga now?