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- From: jcarson@us.oracle.com (Jim Carson)
- Subject: HELP CORVUS OMNINET
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.214432.10845@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- Reply-To: leasgeog@zygochloa.anu.edu.au
- Organization: Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores CA
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:44:32 GMT
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- I'm posting this for a friend who no longer has access to these news
- groups, so please send all reply directly to him, instead of posting them
- on the newsgroup.
- Thanks.
-
- -- Jim Carson
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-
- G'Day.
-
- After many years of successfully using a //c as an all-purpose home
- computer, I picked up a second-hand ][e (unenhanced) at a computer auction
- (at an amazingly cheap price, too). However, it contained a number of cards
- I am unfamiliar with (my previous contact with ][es was over six years ago,
- and they always had Apple cards in them).
-
- The ][e came with a Corvus 20Mb HD, a Corvus Omninet HD server, a
- Corvus Omninet Utility (ie printer) server, and a Corvus Transporter (ie
- network) card to be placed in slot 6. Luckily, all of the omninet documentation
- came with the system, so I know how to create a basic Omninet setup. THe problem
- arises when I want to connect the servers and transporter card to the network;
- the books assume you have all the required cables, which I don't.
-
- The manuals describe how to copnnect these cables to the network, by
- connecting the red wire of the connecting cable to the red wire of the network,
- and the black wire of the connecting cable to the black wire of the network.
- This I can understand, but at the other end of the connecting cable (ie the
- servers and transporter card) there is a 3-pin male plug; how should I connect
- the cable wiring to these plugs?
- The outside pins of the three pin plug are labeled + and - respectively, and the
- middle pin is unlabeled. Should I connect the red cable wire to the + pin, the
- black cable wire to the - pin, and ignore the middle pin? Or is there some
- other, less obvious method of connecting these cables?
-
- By the way, does anyone know if Corvus still exist? I'd like to get an
- internal HD controller card for the ][e, so I can access the HD directly without
- having to use all the messy networking software (I'd also like to format the HD
- as one large ProDOS volume; not two banks with 62 Dos 3.3 volumes like it is
- at the momment).
-
-
- Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not able to access
- netnews, so please reply to the e-mail address below.
-
- Thanks.
-
- Steve Leahy
- c/- Dept. of Geography, ANU
-
-