Re: Two machines in one...

[Mike Latinovich <mlatin%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:56:05PM -0500, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> > Commodore's A1500 was an Amiga A2000 without a
> > hard disk.  I nearly bought a SCSI card for it
> 

In the US/Canada, I believe this is similar to the bare-bones A2000.
Many A2000's were sold in this configuration.  A2000HD is as mentioned
below.

> Weird. My A2000 came with a 2090A controller and an ST-506 drive (which
> recently died ... *sigh*). The label on the front says "2000HD".  [1]
>  
> > I wonder if anyone has ever run NetBSD/i386 on an
> > i386 bridgeboard <andy desperately fumbles to stay
> > on-topic>
> 
> I had a 286 bridgeboard fall into my lap. I was wondering if it would
> be possible/difficult to turn it into a bridge so I could use ISA
> cards in my Amiga. Then I could have 100base-T on my A2000. 
> 
> *Mmmmmmm, humor*
> 

As far as I recall, you could run NetBSD on a bridgeboard.. but I could
also be very, very wrong- I haven't played with any Amiga hardware in
several years now.

As far as using an ethernet adapter (on the PC side) of a bridgeboard,
it's quite possible, but due to the way the ISA bus is mapped into the
Zorro bus spare, I believe performance will be crap. :)  Something like
a 64KB buffer between the two exists, I think.

o-> Mike "SkyGuy" Latinovich      <mlatin%pobox.com@localhost> <-o
o-> The One, The Many - NetBSD - Proudly, Since 1994 <-o