Steven Hirsch

On 01/24/2012 11:01 AM, Ivan X wrote:
> On Jan 24, 7:59 am, Steven Hirsch<snhir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Until Geoff Body finishes his rewrite of the link-layer, it's unlikely that
>> devices like the Farallon iPrint LT will work reliably with the IIgs.
>
> My experience with IIgs bridges, with Netatalk or AppleShare 3.0 is
> this:
>
> Farallon: works as expected for 2-3 mins, then locks up

This is the problem Geoff is hoping to correct. There appears to be an issue
with the implementation that eventually causes the session to drop.

Hugh Hood

Ivan,

A 1 TB Apple II server for $150 would be great.

There might even be a _little_ room left over for non-Apple II stuff, I
suppose.

We'll sit tight and stay tuned.

Thanks.



Hugh Hood






>
>> BTW, have you done anything more with running it all on your Western Digital
>> MyBook NAS drive? I know you mentioned it at one time.
>
> Yeah. I have a first-gen Western Digital My Book World Edition, which
> is a Linux-based stand-alone NAS. That was what I was going to turn to
> next. Netatalk already runs on it, but the issue is that the AppleTalk
> kernel module isn't supplied with the version of Linux on the drive,
> which we need for Apple II. So it has to be compiled.
>
> However, rather than focus on a model that's several years old --
> which would involve real effort on my part -- I'm thinking that I
> might instead pick up a My Book Live, which is what WD is currently
> selling. It also runs Debian Linux, which is the basis for Ubuntu, so
> I should be able to leverage much of the work I've already done for
> A2SERVER, and apparently you can compile right on the box. So, at
> least without having seen it yet, I'm optimistic.