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From: time@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 2 Macs on one HD?
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Date: 11 Oct 89 18:42:09 GMT
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In-Reply-To: kevind@pogo.WV.TEK.COM's message of 5 Oct 89 17:30:39 GMT

In article <7961@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> kevind@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Kevin Draz) writes:

   No.  The SCSI bus can only have one controller, device #7, and the Macintosh
   is very "hard wired" to be device #7.

This misconception still prevails! :)

SCSI has *initiators* and *targets*.

*ANY* Device on the SCSI bus can be an initiator.
*ANY* Device on the SCSI bus can be a target.
*ANY* Device on the SCSI bus can be both.

It just so happens that the Mac is *programmed* to be an initiator.
It would be cool for the Mac to be a target that looked like its own
hard disk! It would also be cool if its SCSI ID were configurable.