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Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Making a Mac talk SCSI to a Sun
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Date: Mon, 9-Feb-87 11:42:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  9 11:42:58 1987
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	We've got a bunch of Sun 3/50's and are thinking of getting some
Apple Macs, mostly to do MacPaint type of stuff (which the Suns would be
great at if only the software existed, and in a form we could afford).  It
would be kind of nice if we could get the Suns and the Macs talking to each
other in some faster way than running xmodem at 9600 baud.  It occured to
me that both machines have SCSI ports, and there might be some way to make
them communicate that way.

	Being basicly ignorant of the details of how SCSI works, I have no
idea if this is practical, or even possible.  Would it be possible, for
example, to use the SCSI ports to do simple file transfer?  How hard would
it be to write some software to make the Sun emulate a SCSI disk for the
Mac?  Of course we wouldn't waste a whole Sun as a Mac disk server, but if
it was possible to have a SCSI-server daemon running in the background, it
might be an attractive way to go.

	So, is this idea brilliant, assinine, or somewhere in-between?
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016

"you can't spell deoxyribonucleic without unix!"