Re: File sharing //e ???

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>The catch: the operating system typically has no support for sharing
>access to a single hard drive - each copy of ProDOS (or GS/OS, or
>whatever) assumes it has full control over details like sector
>allocation, that it can keep cached copies of parts of the file system,
>and can write anywhere whenever it feels like it.

My Cirtech cards have the software to support this. You can have
a mixture of OS's and computers sharing the one drive. Each uses its
own partition.

>The SCSI card in question has lots of jumpers, which are used to

That certainly sounds like the CMS. The Cirtech cards are small, yellow
and leech like (no sorry, that is a Babel fish :-)) and only have 4 or
5 jumpers.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia