Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!orca!pogo!kevind From: kevind@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Kevin Draz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 2 Macs on one HD? Message-ID: <7961@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> Date: 5 Oct 89 17:30:39 GMT References: Reply-To: kevind@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Kevin Draz) Distribution: comp Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR. Lines: 19 In article saaf@joker.optics.rochester.edu (Lennart Saaf) writes: >Is it possible to run two Macs off one hard disc? I assume that each >Mac must boot off its own copy of System (and Finder?). Could this be >done using the Blesser application? Or can the disc be partitioned to >look like two separate discs? If it is possible, is it also >incredibly slow? > No. The SCSI bus can only have one controller, device #7, and the Macintosh is very "hard wired" to be device #7. It is, however, possible to use something like TOPS to have a non-dedicated file server, and a floppy-only client machine, although at least an SC20 type drive would make life easier on the client. -- ---- kevind@pogo.wv.tek.com Tektronix Color Printers Technical Support