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From: kaufman@neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing a SCSI HD
Message-ID: <1991May5.162802.4896@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 May 91 16:28:02 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
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In article <0B01FFFB.erxw5i@outpost.UUCP> peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes:

>In article <1991May5.011353.878@cs.cornell.edu>, swanson@CS.Cornell.EDU (Randall A. Swanson) writes:

-> >> 	Is it possible to share a SCSI Hard drive between a Mac and an Apple
-> >> IIgs with a SCSI card?

-> >Nope, it doesn't work.

-> Actually it works very nicely.  On the Apple II SCSI card you can set the ID#
-> of the CPU.  So all you need to do is set the SCSI ID# on the HD and IIgs
-> to something different than 7 <that of the Mac> and partition the hard drive.
-> with the first physical partion being a ProDos partion and the other a Mac
-> partion.

>Humm, interesting.  Well, it doesn't work with two Macs.  I leapt to
>the conclusion that the gs did SCSI similar to the way Macs do it.

The difference is that both Macs want to access the SAME partition, and you
can't let both control the volume directory at the same time.  In the Mac vs.
IIgs case, they are working in DIFFERENT partitions, and each can control
its own directory.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)