On 7/10/2011 11:53 PM, Bill W. wrote:
I haven't checked to see if the Uthernet has an AIII driver, but even if it did, it would take quite a bit of client software to make something like NAS work.
ADTPro imbeds an IP stack, and that runs natively on SOS. But NAS sounds a bit far-fetched on the II or the ///.
As I understand it, the III ROM exclusively checks for a floppy when booting. So, the CFFA, the Profile, and other other disk devices require the III to boot from the floppy with an appropriate driver. Thus, even with a CFFA, when the floppy bites the dust, the computer becomes unusable. Is that right?
Exactly so. The CFFA looks just like a bunch of ProFiles. You still need to boot from the first drive, but everything else from that point on can come from the hard drive. I use BOS from Bob Consorti - it is a program launcher kind of thing that lets you get at everything from a menu.
Even if a driver were written for the CFFA3000, I'm not sure there's a way the /// could be fooled into booting from it's slot without a ROM modification.