Re: File sharing //e ???

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

tarage <tarage@NOSPAM.bellsouth.net> wrote:

> David Empson wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> 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.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz