Re: File sharing //e ???

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> David Empson wrote:
> 
> >tarage <tarage@NOSPAM.bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> <snip>
> >> With a CMS? Really? I've got one but what I've read over the years is
> >> that they were the least preferable SCSI solution...
> >
> >This is true, because they are so limited - their partitioning scheme is
> >not compatible with any other SCSI card, and the maximum supported drive
> >size is relatively low.
> >
> >The only feature in their favour is this support for sharing access to a
> >hard drive.
> 
> As long as the partitions are not changing, why wouldn't a card that
> reads partition info from the drive work in a similar shared config?
> Say, two Apple Hi-Speed SCSI cards...?

They would, but there isn't anything to protect you against writing to
the shared drive on both computers.  It should be OK as long as you are
disciplined and careful.

With the CMS cards, you can specify that a partition is read only for
one computer, and read/write for the other one.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz