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From: jeffn@nuchat.UUCP (Jeff Noxon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Help with SCSI drive sharing
Message-ID: <19505@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 90 20:48:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: South Coast Computing Services, Inc. - Houston, Tx
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I have a Maxtor XT-1140 drive which I plan on converting to SCSI with an
Adaptec 4000A card.

This drive needs to be shared between two systems, an Apple II+ and my
Apple IIgs at the -SAME TIME-.  Both computers will have their own partitions
and will leave the others alone.  It's a 140 meg drive, so there is plenty
of room for this.

CAN IT BE DONE?

I called Ohio Kache systems and they told me the Apple SCSI card will hang
the bus if I tried it.  I called AMR and they said their card was semi-
compatable and supports only 64 megs.  I don't even want to consider a CMS
'proprietary interface' card.

Is there a fix for the Apple REV C rom to fix the problem with drive sharing?

Is there some other approach I could take (one that doesn't involve AppleTalk
and a Mac) to share a SCSI or ST-506 drive on 2 computers?

Thanks in advance
Jeff

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