Re: SCSI Apple II

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

nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker) writes:
>I'm unaware of any operating system for the Mac or the PC (or even the
>Apple II) that implements the protections necessary to reliably share a
>disk in that manner.  In the absence of such protections, the only safe way
>to do it is for each computer to have its own private partition on the
>shared disk, and never access anything in the other computer's private
>partition, or try to alter the partition table.

Cirtech SCSI cards use exactly that method - although they also allow a
partition to be shared read only to a group of machines.
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David Wilson	Dept CompSci Uni Wollongong Australia	david@cs.uow.edu.au