Connecting two MacPlusses to one SCSI drive!

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From: frankk
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1987 09:24

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Here is a nice question.

How reliable is it, to connect two Mac's to the same SCSI hard disk?

I just tried it, and is *seems* to work, that is, both Mac's boot
from the drive, and they can read from and write to it.

The big question is: what will happen if both of the Mac's want to
write to the drive?

I know that SCSI devices need different numbers to perform ok when
connected, so now there are two devices (i.e. the Mac's) with the
same device number (=7) connected!

Anybody any idees?

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Subject: Connecting two MacPlusses to one SCSI drive!
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Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 04:24:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 04:24:02 1987
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