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From: staatsvr@asdcds.cds.wpafb.af.mil ( Vern Staats;;)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: X11, Ethernet, Shared Hard Disks
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Date: 1 Sep 89 22:03:53 GMT
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In article <848@boing.UUCP> dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes:
>In article <22987@louie.udel.EDU> LIZAK98%SNYBUFVA.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>>   Our goal (and actually need) is to outfit each customer with 2-6 Amigas
>>as workstations and 1 Amiga that would have a 200Mb harddisk.  Is it possible
>>to have 1 hard disk shared over multiple computers.  If so, how is it done.
>
>Presently there is no capability to share a amiga harddisk ...

  C-Ltd *claims* that their Kronos SCSI controller will allow multiple 
Amigas to share a harddrive.  Each computer can have its own partition
with its very own startup-sequence, and I believe there can be shared 
partitions too.  Has anyone out there in netland actually tried this?
It sounds like a pretty good controller (Well, at least according to 
C-Ltd :-)
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