Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Path: utzoo!sq!dak
From: dak@sq.sq.com (David A Keldsen)
Subject: Re: quick question? of laser printers disk drives and memory
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.184250.832@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc.
References: <16391@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <10194@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 91 18:42:50 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...

hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) writes:
>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.

Ah, the drive isn't formatted, the *media* is.  In a removable media
drive, the above isn't a valid objection.


Regards,
Dak
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