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From: time@tbomb.ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: One HD, two Macs
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Date: 12 Jan 91 14:00:04 GMT
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In article <130424@jake.encore.com>, mjw@encore.com (Mike Willegal) writes:
> Now just format the disc into two paritions, run one mac on parition one and
> the other on partition two.  I don't know if you can boot directly off
> the second partion of a disc, the second mac may have to boot off
> some other device before mounting partition two.

And be REAL SURE the driver you are using is smart enough to check
the status of the bus before it goes off trying to do its stuff, otherwise
the contention for the single bus may cause lost data.

I know that a driver I wrote got burned by a busy bus once, and I
ended up putting the proper checks in, but who knows with other drivers...

tim.

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