I recently picked up a Sonic MediaNet NuBus server board for a few dollars. Probably not very useful without a whole bundle of Sonic cards and clients, but I figured it'd be fun to play with for essentially free.
From what I've found, MediaNet has an interesting history that's spottingly documented. At its core, it provides extremely high speed (for the time) network storage for audio storage over FDDI or (conveniently) CDDI, meaning you can use standard twisted-pair ethernet cabling if you've got a CDDI card. Unlike the Mac's mid 90's ethernet networking, it advertised true 100Mbit speeds, and has a bunch of cool features like two onboard SCSI busses and directly serviced network requests bypassing the need to tie up the CPU while serving files.
Surprisingly, despite being a fairly popular setup for professional CD mastering, I can't find any copies of 68k SonicStudio or, more problematically the MediaNet software which I believe provides drivers for the card. (Unless someone knows what image format it is, the copy of SonicStudio 5.2.1 that seems to float around doesn't seem to be usable at all).
I'd love to document the card, anyone happen to have drivers?
From what I've found, MediaNet has an interesting history that's spottingly documented. At its core, it provides extremely high speed (for the time) network storage for audio storage over FDDI or (conveniently) CDDI, meaning you can use standard twisted-pair ethernet cabling if you've got a CDDI card. Unlike the Mac's mid 90's ethernet networking, it advertised true 100Mbit speeds, and has a bunch of cool features like two onboard SCSI busses and directly serviced network requests bypassing the need to tie up the CPU while serving files.
Surprisingly, despite being a fairly popular setup for professional CD mastering, I can't find any copies of 68k SonicStudio or, more problematically the MediaNet software which I believe provides drivers for the card. (Unless someone knows what image format it is, the copy of SonicStudio 5.2.1 that seems to float around doesn't seem to be usable at all).
I'd love to document the card, anyone happen to have drivers?
