Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!mha From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: One harddisk and two macs Message-ID: <7894@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 8 May 89 06:56:46 GMT References: <13346@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) Distribution: comp.sys.mac Organization: Department of Media Services, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 22 In article paisley@circus.cme.nbs.gov (Scott Paisley) writes: > >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? Considering that a Mac connected to a SCSI device is just a SCSI device itself, as far as the device is concerned, is there really any reason that you couldn't simply daisy-chain two computers on a SCSI chain and have both of them address the same disk drive the same way that one computer can address two disk drives? I'll admit I don't know how the SCSI protocol works (and I'm sure it shows :-) but this doesn't sound THAT impossible. -- Mark H. Anbinder ** MHA@TCGould.tn.cornell.edu NG33 MVR Hall, Media Services Dept. ** THCY@CRNLVAX5.BITNET Cornell University H: (607) 257-7587 ******** Ithaca, NY 14853 W: (607) 255-1566 ******* Ego ipse custodies custudio