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- From: wblock@rapidnet.com (Warren Block)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Questions about Arcnet (A2060) card
- Date: 24 Jan 1996 16:16:05 GMT
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- Paul Kolenbrander (paul@serena.iaehv.nl) wrote:
-
- [A2060 questions]
-
- : To set the ArcNet address. Binary representation. Beware though, a
- : number of A2060's have the siwtch mounted wrongly. To get say address
- : 1, it's not 1 to ON and the rest to OFF, but 1 to OFF and the rest to
- : ON. Or was it 8 to OFF and the rest to ON? Either of these two...
-
- The A2060 is documented in the Guide, in a fairly large way (I have one,
- so this is relatively easy 8-). Pointer below.
-
- One note: I have tried and failed to connect an Amiga and PC with
- Arcnet. Apparently this is due to the frame type used by the A2060
- drivers, which is relatively old, and only old PC software speaks the
- same frame type. Pointers for successful PC-Amiga Arcnet connection
- would be welcomed (mostly just PC software, one supposes).
-
- /* Auto-pointer to the A4000 Hardware Guide */
- More information on this topic is found in the A4000 Hardware Guide,
- which is available from your favorite Aminet ftp site. The archive
- is in the hard/misc directory, and is called a4khard_v3.lha.
-
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