HELP CORVUS OMNINET

[jcarson@us.oracle.com (Jim Carson)]

     I'm posting this for a friend who no longer has access to these news
groups, so please send all reply directly to him, instead of posting them
on the newsgroup.
Thanks.

-- Jim Carson
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G'Day.

     After many years of successfully using a //c as an all-purpose home
computer, I picked up a second-hand ][e (unenhanced) at a computer auction
(at an amazingly cheap price, too).  However, it contained a number of cards
I am unfamiliar with (my previous contact with ][es was over six years ago,
and they always had Apple cards in them).

	The ][e came with a Corvus 20Mb HD, a Corvus Omninet HD server, a
Corvus Omninet Utility (ie printer) server, and a Corvus Transporter (ie
network) card to be placed in slot 6.  Luckily, all of the omninet documentation
came with the system, so I know how to create a basic Omninet setup. THe problem
arises when I want to connect the servers and transporter card to the network;
the books assume you have all the required cables, which I don't.

	The manuals describe how to copnnect these cables to the network, by
connecting the red wire of the connecting cable to the red wire of the network,
and the black wire of the connecting cable to the black wire of the network.
This I can understand, but at the other end of the connecting cable (ie the
servers and transporter card) there is a 3-pin male plug; how should I connect
the cable wiring to these plugs?
The outside pins of the three pin plug are labeled + and - respectively, and the
middle pin is unlabeled.  Should I connect the red cable wire to the + pin, the
black cable wire to the - pin, and ignore the middle pin?  Or is there some
other, less obvious method of connecting these cables?  

	By the way, does anyone know if Corvus still exist?  I'd like to get an
internal HD controller card for the ][e, so I can access the HD directly without
having to use all the messy networking software (I'd also like to format the HD
as one large ProDOS volume; not two banks with 62 Dos 3.3 volumes like it is
at the momment). 


Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm not able to access
netnews, so please reply to the e-mail address below.

Thanks.

Steve Leahy
c/- Dept. of Geography, ANU