Amiga Hardware DatabaseCompany Commodore, USA | Date 1990 | Amiga A2000, A3000, A4000 | Interface Zorro II | Autoconfig ID 514 / 90,112 |
- Ethernet interface
- based on the Ameristar Ethernet Controller
- AMD Am7990 Ethernet controller
- 10 Mbit/s transfer speed
- 32 kB buffer shared between the Am7990 and the Amiga
- uses DMA transfers for the onboard buffer
- BNC and DB15 (AUI) connectors
- Thick Ethernet 10Base5
- segment length: 500 meters without repeaters
- network length: 2500 meters without repeaters
- 100 nodes per segment
- min. node spacing: 2.5 meters
- requires transceiver cable
- Thin Ethernet 10Base2
- segment length: 185 meters without repeaters
- network length: 925 meters without repeaters
- 30 nodes per segment
- min. node spacing: 0.5 meters
- no direct support for 10BaseT
- SANA II and MNI drivers
- supported by Linux, NetBSD and OpenBSD
