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[This note added by Blaine Gardner to (hopefully) help others save some
frustration with the ParNet. I have nothing to do with software except
being a happy user once I got it working.]
Oh, and I'd best (finally!) pass on some general PPN info that I got in
reply to a plea for help a couple of months ago. (Sorry to be so slow.)
I had the PPN working from the CLI, but no Drawer icons showed up in the
NET: Disk icon window. It turns out that the documentation has a couple
of glitches.
1) The docs say to name the icon you wish to use as the Drawer icon for
the remote disks "node.info", but it must really be named "node.rinfo".
Without the "r", it won't show up.
2) The docs say you need to "ASSIGN ROOT: <path>". Well, not quite. You
must assign ROOT: to a root directory. When assigned to "DH0:ParNet" I
couldn't get the icons to show up on Workbench. But when I switched the
assignment to "DH0:", it worked fine.
I stumbled across 2) myself, but credit goes to Dwight Blubaugh
(blubaugh@ucqais.uc.edu) and Francois Rouaix (rouaix@inria.inria.fr)
for pointing out 1) to me.
I have successfully run the PPN over 50-60 feet of cable between a 1000
and a 2000, and ~20 feet of cable to a 500. DiskSpeed reports about
25K/second which is twice as fast as a floppy on writes, and four times
as fast on reads. The hard drive on the host is getting 750-850K/sec on
reads, so 25K/sec is probably about the limit on the ParNet.
Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland 580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
Here: There: (My Amiga running uucp)
blgardne@esunix.UUCP blaine@worsel.UUCP
{decwrl, utah-cs}!esunix!blgardne utah-cs!caeco!i-core!worsel!blaine