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In article <1d5oys6.tywdvhd11bx4N@p51.nas4.is2.u-net.net>,
real-address-in-sig@rhu.barb.foobar (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:

> Lawrence Flowers <leaf@teaftech.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > That sounds better; so I need a cable that connects the special SCSI port on
> > the 180 to the SCSI on the G3?.
> 
> I'm not sure of any of the details about this, so don't take my word for
> it, but...  As far as I know, any SCSI Mac can do this sort of thing
> (don't try it at home kiddies - you might blow up your SCSI port; I have
> heard of people on the Classic Macs mailing list playing about like
> this, though, with everything from Pluses upwards), but the PowerBooks
> have got special software that sorts things out neatly

It's physically possible to connect two computers to (say) the same hard
disk. But it's not nice, won't work well, can damage the equipment, and
*won't let you mount the other Mac's hard disk* as they'll both be SCSI ID
0.

As you say, most powerbooks have special ROMs and hardware to enable a
special 'SCSI Disk Mode' operation - when in this mode, they can't be used
as anything except a hard disk, and display the SCSI ID number on the
screen.

Paul Durrant