Re: File sharing //e ???

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

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?


-michael

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