On 1/11/2012 2:34 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
On 01/11/2012 10:47 AM, David Schmidt wrote:On 1/11/2012 9:32 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:While waiting 2+ hours and counting for a Fishhead-driven backup of my 2gs to complete over Localtalk, I was wondering about the possibility of hacking the drivers to use AFP-over-ethernet. Has anyone managed to acquire the sources or a good disassembly of the GS Appletalk support? Tony Diaz has been able to get Appletalk working over a rare-as-hens-teeth Apple ethernet card. Not sure if this capability was built into the GS drivers, though.I kind of doubt that would be feasible... I think the architecture of that ET card is a lot like the workstation (serial) card, in that there's a whole imbedded processor to deal with AFP. So there's a pile of code that runs on that processor that is doing a lot of "driver" work.I agree that a 2e would need coprocessor support, but I have to believe that a 2gs is natively capable in terms of computational power and memory.
That might depend on how fast that 65xx processor is running on the card. ;-) But a dump of the code it is running would be instructive. It would take a chip reader of whatever sort of ROM device that card has on it - the code isn't visible in the Apple II space. (From my experiments with the workstation card.)
How big is the drive you're backing up? ADTPro could do a whole volume copy over Uthernet, but it would be suboptimal if the drive were sparsely populated.I don't like image backups. A file-wise solution is important to me.
Understood, makes sense.