Date   : Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:42:29 +0100
From   : afra@... (Phill Harvey-Smith)
Subject: Fileservers

Rob wrote:
> 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!

Well it was what I had :) besides changing the clock frequency can then 
be done on the fly, rather than having to change components :)

> Yes, I can recommend Ian's boards..

That's good to hear.

>> 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.

I worked out what my problem was, after reading Ian's pages on L1 I 
realised that *I AM <station> refered to the server station and not the 
workstation !

>> 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 ...

Yeah I saw that and JGH's SoftMDFS also, that's good, time to fire up 
the A5000 then.

>> 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.

Cheers, I also found a more recent version here :

http://bbcmicro.net/old-8bs/econet.htm Which also has the atom econet 
rom image.....humm clone with Econet.....

> 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 ..

Yep, seems to work fine with Watford DDFS too.

Cheers.

Phill.

-- 
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.