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From: wcarroll@encore.com (Mr. New Dad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: One HD, two Macs
Message-ID: <130402@jake.encore.com>
Date: 10 Jan 91 17:53:30 GMT
References: <16073@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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From dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek):
> I have two Macintoshes and one 80MB hard drive.  I'd like to access
> the HD from either Mac.  I understand I can put the HD on an Apple
> network if I make one of the Macs a dedicated server.  Um, kinda
> misses the point, I think.
> 
> Does anybody have a reasonable way to share one hard drive between
> two Macs?  Or is this just not technically feasible?

We've had lots of suggestions, but they all seem to imply something like:

	------
	| HD |
	------    comm link
	  | ----------------
	  | |		   |
	-------		-------
	| Mac |		| Mac |
	-------		-------



Is it possible to do this?

		 ------
		 | HD |
		 ------
		   |
	   ----------------- <- scsi bus
	   |		   |
	-------		-------
	| Mac |		| Mac |
	-------		-------

Has anyone ever seen it work? What kind of problems were encountered?
How were they resolved?


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William R. Carroll  (Encore Computer Corp., Ft. Lauderdale FL)
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