[comp.sys.apple] One Hard Drive & 2 Computers

dvac@druwa.ATT.COM (Daniel Vachon) (01/19/90)

I recently got a Seagate ST296N 80 Meg hard drive for my BBS that runs off
of an Apple //e with an Apple SCSI card (Rev.C) holding down it's end of the
deal.  I would like to hook up my Franklin to the same hard drive and use
part of the first partition for some of my larger applications like Aztec
C-65 and be able to dable in shell and C while the BBS chugs away on the
//e.  

The Question: Can I simply pick up another Apple SCSI card and drop it into
  the Franklin, crimp another female DB-25 connector on my SCSI cable, and
  hook the Franklin into it?  Will this cause collisions of directory blocks
  on subsequent write operations?   Or is there some sort of "black-box" that
  I can hook up both computers too that will contend for use of the hard drive
  on an operational basis?  

  In simple terms, HOW CAN I HOOK MY OTHER APPLE TO THE SAME SCSI HD?! Help!

Later - Dan Vachon - @ AT&T Bell Labs, Denver     !att!druwa!dvac

toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (01/20/90)

dvac@druwa.ATT.COM (Daniel Vachon) writes:

>  In simple terms, HOW CAN I HOOK MY OTHER APPLE TO THE SAME SCSI HD?! Help!

Talk to CirTech. They have SCSI cards and software to do just what you want.
However, their software may or may not work with Apple's card, but there's
no obvious reason why it wouldn't.

I don't have the address handy; A2-Central deals for them if you get that.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu