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From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing a SCSI HD
Message-ID: <1991May6.014455.20178@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 01:44:55 GMT
References: <1991May5.162802.4896@neon.Stanford.EDU> <52475@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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In article <52475@apple.Apple.COM> bell@apple.com (Mike Bell) writes:
---everybody else write something like---
>> -> >> Is it possible to share a SCSI Hard drive between a Mac and a IIgs
>> -> >Nope, it doesn't work.
>> -> Actually it works very nicely.
>> >Humm, interesting.  Well, it doesn't work with two Macs.
>   Actually, the problem is that the Mac has it's SCSI address fixed at 7. 
>So, if you put two Macs on the same SCSI bus, there is an address conflict.

   It should be possible and fairly easy to change the scsi address of a mac,
but it will require something approaching hacking the motherboard.  I haven't
done it, or seriously considered it.  I'm really sending this to shorten the
amount of quoted text for more followups....
al



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