Re: Connecting two MacPlusses to one SCSI drive!

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From: dgold
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1987 21:38

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In article <243@sering.mcvax.cwi.nl> frankk@cwi.nl.UUCP (Frank Kuiper) writes:
>Here is a nice question.
>How reliable is it, to connect two Mac's to the same SCSI hard disk?

This is a REALLY dangerous and bad thing to do.  The Mac file manager is
not set up to handle shared hard disks.  Even with the Control Panel cache
off, it caches information in memory, and two Macs writing to the same disk
are guaranteed to corrupt that disk, and fast.  DON'T DO THIS!
-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.
MacApp Group

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Subject: Re: Connecting two MacPlusses to one SCSI drive!
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Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 16:38:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  9 16:38:22 1987
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