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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!news.sinet.slb.com!news.San-Jose.ate.slb.com!San-Jose.ate.slb.com!banzai From: banzai@San-Jose.ate.slb.com (Jeffery Kaneko) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: HELP - 3COM 3SERVER?? Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 22:09:49 Organization: Schlumberger Technologies Lines: 50 Message-ID: <banzai.22.00162A92@San-Jose.ate.slb.com> References: <D0uz3p.12t@ns1.nodak.edu> <3ctdeq$gu1@styx.uwa.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: jeff_banzai.san-jose.ate.slb.com X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] In article <3ctdeq$gu1@styx.uwa.edu.au> taylork@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Ken Taylor) writes: >Path: news.San-Jose.ate.slb.com!news.sinet.slb.com!csn!ub!news.kei.com!uhog.mit.edu!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!msunews!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!taylork >From: taylork@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Ken Taylor) >Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions >Subject: Re: HELP - 3COM 3SERVER?? >Date: 17 Dec 1994 01:04:26 GMT >Organization: The University of Western Australia >Lines: 30 >Message-ID: <3ctdeq$gu1@styx.uwa.edu.au> >References: <D0uz3p.12t@ns1.nodak.edu> >NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au >X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] >Chris Walth (walth@plains.NoDak.edu) wrote: >: I have a 3COM 3server, and I was wondering if Freebsd 2.0R would operate >: on it. It has a built in ethernet, and appletalk network cards. It also >: has both async and sync serial cards built in. All of this is on the >: motherboard. I have no manuals.. It has a scsi hard drive in it. Any >: suggestions would be helpful.. Please post and email me a copy.. Thanks >: for your time.. >Gak ! >Almost certainly not.. The early 3Servers ran on an 80186 and were effectively >dedicated hardware for running 3Share. >They weren't blindingly fast, but very useful. They could share AppleShare >as well as their own proprietry 3Com DOS client. >I personally don't think you'll have any luck. >Also, They didn't have "real" SCSI disks in them.. They used an Adaptec >4000 series SCSI->ST506 card (God, I still have a spare on the shelf). >Sorry to be the bearer of such bad news. You could always use it as a >fileserver ! >Ken >-- >+------------------------------+-------------------------------+ _ . >| Ken Taylor :-) | "What's the point in being | _r| Ll\ >| Highway 1 | cool if you can't wear | | |_|__\ >| Perth, Western Australia | sombreros ?" - Hobbes | ->\__|_|__/ Actually, I e-mailed this guy, and he's got a 3Server386. It is possible to convert this thing into a workstation to run mess-dos, but that's about it. I tried to convince him that it simply wasn't worth the trouble . . . . --Banzai