Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bgsuvax!dnebing From: dnebing@bgsuvax.UUCP (David Nebinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Mac Sysadmin questions Message-ID: <7579@bgsuvax.UUCP> Date: 13 Jun 91 19:42:07 GMT Article-I.D.: bgsuvax.7579 References: <91164.092420UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> <1991Jun13.182446.1089@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu> Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh. Lines: 22 In article <1991Jun13.182446.1089@zardoz.eng.ohio-state.edu>, gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu writes: > In article <91164.092420UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>, Lee Sailer writes: > >5. If I only have one external CD-ROM drive, can I move it back and forth > > from the Mac (SCSI, right?) and msdos (SCSI, to be same as Mac, I guess) > > so that whoever needs it can use it for a few days? (Assuming software > > is available for each, of course.) > > In theory, yes. Provided you have the appropriate drivers for both > the Macintosh and MS-DOS environments, as well as the SCSI interface > hardware on the MS-DOS side. Note that most CD-ROMs are usable only > on one platform. Meaning your Mac CD-ROMs probably won't work on the > MS-DOS PC, and vice versa. I thought that the High-Sierra format was supposed to make the cd's readable by both machines. I know that they couldn't use each other's applications, etc., but general the file structures could be read and understood by both machines. David Nebinger dnebing@andy.bgsu.edu "This is the sound of my brain on Don Henley..."