Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!isis!nyx!bscott From: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Connecting Amigas to 1 HD Summary: SCSInet a possibility?? Message-ID: <1408@nyx.UUCP> Date: 1 Jul 90 09:07:02 GMT References: <31292@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Ben Scott) Organization: Public Access Unix - University of Denver Lines: 30 In article <31292@cup.portal.com> Peter_Warren_Lee@cup.portal.com writes: >I am looking for a cheap and easy way to allow 6 A500's to use the same >harddrive. Is there some sort of gizmo out there that will let me do it? Not sure about this, but SCSInet MIGHT be a possibility. A friend of mine uses it to hook two Amigas to a bunch of HDs he has. SCSInet allows multiple "hosts" on one bus. Since there are 7 spaces, 6 Amigas and one HD might work if SCSInet allows more than two hosts (?). Also, another factor is that the only SCSInet implementation for the Amiga I know was with CLtd HD interfaces. Other than that I can see no way to hook 6 Amigas together or to anything else short of using some sort of actual network like Ethernet. Which would be possible, but probably more expensive than buying a SCSI interface for each one and using SCSInet. You would have to be sure that a Diskchange command was performed on EACH Amiga after any write by any of them, to validate the bitmap that's held in RAM, or else you will quickly get a badly screwed hard drive... this could be an inconvenience, unless only one is ever writing to the disk. . <<<>>> -- .---------------------------------------------------------------------------. |Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver| |Amiga UUCP node domain: bscott@vila.denver.co.us Else: bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu| |FIDO point address 1:104/421.2, or call the Arvada 68K BBS at (303)424-9831| |"Don't embarrass us..." "Have I ever?" - Buckaroo Banzai | *AMIGA POWER* | `---------------------------------------------------------------------------'