Date   : Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:12:32 +0100
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Fileservers

On 24/08/2009, Phill Harvey-Smith <afra@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've sort of got econet going between two beebs (it's a tempory lash up
> on breadboard, with a AVR mega8 acting as a clock generator...), anyway

touch overkill, (my clock is a 555!) but well done!

> I've hopefully got a couple of master/Achemedes econet boards and a
> clock coming from BeebMaster's shop which should go some way towards
> making this a little less tempory :)

Yes, I can recommend Ian's boards..

>
> The above setup seems to work using BeebMaster's basic notify program, I
> have tried from both stations. But I cannot get the L1 fs from JGH's
> site to work, the fileserver boots fine, but the other station always
> says "not listening" when accessing the network.
>
> Since I don't have a co-pro at the moment I'm pretty much limited to the
> L1 fileserver. However I do also have an A5000, which I believe can also
> use the master econet board. Can I use this machine as a fileserver for
> my Beebs ?

yes you can - indeed, I do exactly that..   awserver is on mdfs.net,
or you might be able to find somebody with level4 ...

>
> On a side note is the L1 server disk available as an image, the archive
> on mdfs.net only seems to contain the !Boot and FS files.

There's a copy in the ssd here:
http://www.irrelevant.com/bbc/00000015.zip , along with other stuff.
It's apparently an old version, but it still works.

But, Level1 is written in basic, so you don't need to worry about
load/exec addresses. As long as you can get it to the beebs, just
CHAIN it.  It then exports the DFS disc it was sat on ..