Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!cme!durer!paisley From: paisley@circus.cme.nbs.gov (Scott Paisley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: One harddisk and two macs Message-ID: Date: 5 May 89 14:03:43 GMT References: <13346@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Sender: news@cme.nbs.gov Distribution: comp.sys.mac Organization: Nat'l Institute of Standards and Technology Lines: 21 In-reply-to: boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu's message of 4 May 89 05:42:45 GMT In article <13346@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> boz@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (John Boswell) writes: cheap way to allow BOTH macs to use the (single) harddisk. Do I have to buy TOPS would allow you to do this BUT it would probably burden the mac connect to the hardrive while the other mac was doing disk access. What I would like to know is: Can two macs access a single SCSI harddrive via hardware? That is, partition the harddrive so that each mac has its own partition, and each mac would connect to one of the scsi connectors on the drive. Can this work? What happens when both macs try to write at the same time? Ok, you hardware guys, let's hear from you! -- "...and this thing you call language - you depend on it for so much, yet none of you are its master." -Carlos the Medusan Scott Paisley paisley@cme.nbs.gov ..!uunet!cme-durer!paisley