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From: matthew@sunpix.East.Sun.COM ( Sun Visualization Products)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Help with SCSI drive sharing
Message-ID: <1142@greens.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 90 19:51:35 GMT
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In article <19505@nuchat.UUCP> jeffn@nuchat.UUCP (Jeff Noxon) writes:
}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?
}
}Thanks in advance
}Jeff
}

    Checkout Cirtech's SCSI card and SCSI network software.  The cards and
software are available thru A2-Central 

*****
*  Here is the text of A2-Central's catalog
*****
**
** SCSI interface 
**      CIRTECH's SCSI inteface card brings the world of SCSI hard disks to
** your Apple IIgs, IIe or II-plus.  SCSI stands for "Small Computer System
** Interface".  This is a standard, defined by the ANSI X3T9.2 specification,
** which devices such as the Seagate STxxxN family of hard drives adhere to.
**      CIRTECH's card comes with software that allows you to split SCSI
** hard disks for use with up to four operating systems--ProDOS (or GS/OS),
** DOS 3.3., Pascal 1.3, or Microsoft Softcard CP/M 2.20B or 2.23.
**      Unlike Apple's SCSI card, CIRTECH's card, with the addition of SCSI
** network software, can be used to share one or two hard disks among as many 
** as six or seven computers (a maximum of eight devices total). Each computer 
** has a private area on the disk.  
**
** CT-SC    SCSI Interface Card      $139
** 
**     
** SCSI network software
**      CIRTECH's Multi-User SCSI software allows several computers to 
** "share" up to two high-capacity storage devices.  This provides a cost-
** effective way to attach several computers to a hard disk.  Using a  
** 64-megabyte Seagate ST277N hard disk assembly, for example, six computers
** could have "private" 10-megabyte hard disks for $200-250 per computer.
**      The software splits the hard disk up into "user partitions".  Only
** the computer that owns the partition can write to it.  Partitions can 
** also be "read protected"  at the users option.  Operating system partitions
** can be created inside a user partition.
**      Each computer also has access to a "common" partition that can be used
** for read-only data and program storage.  You'll need a CIRTECH SCSI card 
** for each computer and one network package.
** 
** CT-NET    SCSI Network Software   $99
** 
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