Re: [MiNT] *Don't* buy Biodata cards from A.G...

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@freemint.de>]

Hello!

> A brief word of encouragement:
> 
> Please, please do make this SCSI-Ethernet project a success. I have nothing 
> against the ROM-port solution, but the SCSI-based option offers the ability (I 
> do hope) to have more than one ethernet adapter, and still retain the use of the 
> ROM-port. It has a lot more potential - easier to incorporate internally in 
> recased machines, etc.

Yes, the SCSI option is also hopefully faster as the romport solution. The
MiNTNet driver get 50 kb/s ftp download, 80 kb/s ftp upload on a normal
falcon 030. On afterburner it's 80 kb/s download, 200 kb/s upload. And the
adapter is polled, not interrupt driven.


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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