[Install Freenas On Iomega Storcenter Ix2
Sibyl Piccuillo
Work has slowed down a little and I have some time to spend on my retrocomputers, if I had much more time I could probably do it myself, but since I don't have much I would need your advice so as not to finish after Christmas.
1)The computer is a PS/1 386sx and comes standard with a 1.44 floppy disk. I also installed a 1.2Mb floppy disk, I connected it to the same original cable as the computer because it already had the connector set up, but when I try in DOS to exceed any of the two drives it gives me the typical error when the drive is not configured correctly asking me abort, retry etc... The 5.25 drive is original IBM and I think it is the standard one of an IBM 5170, I have no experience, could there be jumpers to select? I attach the photo of the drive.
2)2) I tried to connect a parallel Iomega Zip 250 in the same way I connect it to Pentium computers. At the DOS prompt I usually use the "Guest.exe" program provided by Iomega itself which is used to install the drives on the fly, but the computer immediately writes to me that it cannot find the drive letter. I attach photo of the bios with the address of the parallel port. Note: I also have a sound blaster pro2 installed but I don't think it could be a conflict.
3)I installed the classic EtherlinkIII card but I have no idea how to use it to exchange files, I did some research on the forum but I didn't find situations that were identical to mine, there were always differences or things that helped me. I would simply like to exchange files with the 386, i.e. upload them to it. I have read that there are incompatibilities between such different versions of the network, between dos and win10, between dos or win3.11 and win10, between dos and freenas (which I have). I wanted to have simpler management, if I have to configure a small NAS perhaps WinXP between my retrocomputers and the modern MAC/WIN10 I can do it. I would like you to advise me of the simplest solution.
#1 Remove the white resistor terminator pack off the 5.25", the 3.5" will already be terminated on the end of the cable, it will mess things up if termed on the first floppy connector...
other questions am unsure...
You don't need EPP for the ZIP drive. Haven't tried it myself, but from what I've read the original driver only needs DOS 4 or 5. With another driver (PalmZip) it even works on an XT. At least the ZIP100. Things may be different with the ZIP250, though.
1. Load packet driver
2. Load DHCP from MTCP
3. Start FTP-server from MTCP
4. Start FTP client software of your choosing on your modern rig and connect to the FTP-server
5. Start moving files over LAN like there is no tomorrow
For networking you have a few different options.
DOS networking is really basic and bit of a pain to setup, Windows for Workgroups is slightly better but you do need to modify security settings to have it talk to modern OS's.
mtcp uses ftp which is much easier to get working with modern hardware, but its not built into dos/Win3x so will need to install a ftp client if you want a GUI interface.
Personally I prefer Windows networking as it feels more correct? but fully acknowledge mtcp is the superior option both in transfer speed and setting up.
Once you decided which networking you want to use we can help you out
for best success you want workgroup, username and password to be the same on all computers. If you don't 9x and earlier will get confused and get stuck in a loop asking for log in details when accessing different machines.
dos, win3x don't have any ability to browse the network. You have to map a drive to a share. I find it easier to copy the files from my more modern PC onto 3x computers then the other way round, but it can be done.
There is a benefit for networking if the drive on you target machine is not so large. You can install Microsoft Office from network for example instead of fiddling with a lot of floppies or having the space for the installer. I have even run DOOM entirely from network (in DOS) to test different versions and that will work (although a bit slow).
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