[comp.os.vms] Dual ported disks.

CGORMAN@DREW.BITNET (Chris Gorman, 201-377-3000 [x 205]) (07/13/87)

True enough was that comment about Dual ported RA-81's.  We have such
disks at Drew.  For $1200, you can get these cables and leave them
connected to two systems as once, BUT they are only useful if one system
goes down and you want to move all the users on that system
to another one or if you are doing installations and want to do a
disk-to-disk copy.

In fact, the cables are set up so that the disk is active on one
system when the A button is pushed and it is active on the other
system when the B button is pushed.  I do not know what happens
if you push in both buttons at once, but my guess is that you
won't get a V(G1  s au