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baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:

>	Hasn't anyone made a bus-expander?  I remember hearing (many moons
>ago) that it shouldn't be too hard to design/build an extended bus (ie. 
>extra connectors/slots) but that because of the way the VME was implemented
>it would not support bus-master cards.  I should think that this would be a 
>rather popular (=customer demand) item considering it could be used in TTs and
>MegaSTes, not to mention any new machines that Atari comes out with (it 
>doesn't look like VME will be phased out any time soon).  Who wants to get
>stuck with the stock video?  Who wants to have to decide between 1024x768x24bit
>color and an ethernet connection - a truly miserable choice (but I wish I had 
>that choice :).  

There's at least one company in Germany that repackages the TT board into
a box of their own design, that includes a 4-slot 3U VME cardcage.
The drivers one the board won't handle more than that, and you still get
onlt A24/D16.  It looks awfully industrial, not the sort of thing I'd
like on my desktop, but, hey, if you need more slots...(I had forgotten
all about this when I made my original reply).

>>... but it you know of a good SCSI Ethernet, I'd
>>be intereted in hearing details. ... I know there was a
>>company doing such a device for Macs (in Utah?), but I never did get
>>any more info on them.

>	The company, Asante, builds Mac SCSI-ethernet cards. I am sure there
>are other companies, but this is only one I know of (and have the address of).
>Their address & phone number is:
>	Asante' Technologies, 404 Tasman Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94089
>1-800-662-9686

The company I had been thinking of was Dayna; their phone number - I think -
is 801-531-0600 (the address I was given was 50 South Main, Salt Lake Ciy
Utah 84144).  I never got any further info on this, though.

Now...does anyone have details on either the Asante or Dayna SCSi Ethernet
product? Performance, price, etc?
-- 
Mats Wichmann
Systems Software Consultant
alruna!mats@ossi.com (or mats@netcom.com)