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From: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe)
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Subject: Re: quick question?   of laser printers disk drives and memory
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Date: 6 Feb 91 15:22:15 GMT
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In article <16391@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cs163wfn@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (Tod 
Kuykendall) writes:
>    If I have a QMS 810 turbo (roughly NTX clone) and I have a 45 meg
> removable to do back-ups on can I have it do double duty as both
> external disk drive for my printer AND as a back-up removable medium
> for my IIfx?  SCSI switch or what??  All thoughts welcome...

It is my understanding that a disk drive for the printer is formatted 
differently than the disk drive for the Mac. So, even if you had a SCSI 
switch, you couldn't share the drive.

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