Re: Crazy SCSI Tricks

[khym@bga.com (Khym Mahn)]

In article <1994Apr19.163916.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>,
Philip Lamb, UoC-Chch-NZ <misc176@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>Is their any software (or hardware) around to hook up a Mac and a II over SCSI
>? As I understand it the computer just appears as another device on the bus,
>so it should be okay.

I guess you want to have both computers access the same hard disk?
Someone else probably has all the details about doing this, but yes,
it's possible and also very dangerous. I believe you'll need either a
Rev C. Apple SCSI card or the High Speed SCSI card in the Apple II,
since they support SCSI bus arbitration. You _don't_ want both
machines to access the same partition at the same time, since this
could really corrupt the filesystem, especially if both machines are
trying to write at the same time. Anyways, it's really not worth it...
if you want to share a hard disk, Localtalk the Mac and the II
together or something :-)
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