Re: File sharing //e ???

[Stephen Shaw <stephen@junkbuster.zzn.com>]

On 24 Jun 2002 04:57:33 GMT, Michael J. Mahon wrote:

> David Empson wrote:
>
>>Simon Williams <ludditetech@mac.com> wrote:
>>
> <snip>
>>> Is it possible to have two computers physically sharing the drive
>>> (will probably be a Focus card) via some sort of 'Y' adapter?
>>
>>Not with a Focus.
>>
>>One way you can do this is to use one particular brand of third-party
>>SCSI card (CMS?), which supports hard partitioning of a SCSI hard drive.
>>This allows you to set up independent partitions for each of two
>>computers (each computer must have one of these SCSI cards).  You can
>>also set up a shared partition, but it is only safe to write to it from
>>one computer at a time (ideally, one computer should have write access
>>and the other one should only have read access).
>
> Really?!  I'm amazed that _any_ Apple SCSI card can deal with a multi-
> master arrangement on the SCSI bus.  Don't they all just _assume_ that
> if they haven't started anything, that nothing is going on, and the bus is
> their's to play with?
>

I read somewhere that you could get a Mac and the II range to share a SCSI hard
disk.

>
> -michael
>
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