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From: mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard drives for an Amiga 2000
Message-ID: <368@tardis.cc.umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 09:35:26 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 09:35:26 1987
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Reply-To: mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
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I have an Amiga 2000 and Bridgeboard on order.  I am having problems
understanding the advantages and disadvantages of putting a hard drive on an
Amiga 2000 on the PC side vs. the Amiga side.  Some people say you have
more options if you put it on the Amiga side, some say you're better off with
a hard drive on the IBM side.

What would be optimal for me is to have a drive that was acessible equally
from both sides, i.e. if you type dir from either side (Amiga or PC), you
see all the files on the drive, both Amiga and PC.  Then, with a TOPS card
on the PC side, I could let my Macintosh use the drive as well and all three
computers could use the same hard drive, making it very easy for me to
exchange files between all three machines.

Is such a thing possible?  If so, how is it done?  If not, what are the
advantages of putting the drive on one side or the other?

I appreciate any advice you can give me either via mail or here on the net.

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| Michael Nowak                           |  "You may not be able to buy   |
| mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu                 |   happiness, but you certainly |
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|             the University of Michigan. |          - Patrick Nowak       |
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