Talking about the Deskstation Tyne - I dare to bet that it's possible to
get the Tyne port running again with a NE2000 card and non-DMA IDE within
two days of work. That includes 12h of sleep per day. It will just take
somebody competent getting his finger hacking, sigh ...
There is even a good reference, the {Net,Open}BSD code.
Ralf