rodney@dgp.toronto.edu (Rodney Hoinkes) (07/20/90)
We currently have a lab of IRIS' and are setting up a lab of Macs, and this new lab means we need more storage devices, but we don't just want them for the Macs, the IRIS' should be able to access them as well. We are looking at read/write/eraseable optical drive(s), but SGI doesn't seem to have one right now except for a Maxtor model which may get out sometime at the end of the month but we have no pricing, whereas there are lots out there for the Mac systems. So, the problem I pose to anyone who can help is... HOW CAN IT BE DONE? (& done transparently) Currently, we just use an ethernet board in a mac and ftp between the two. We have checked out a product known as the GatorBox which allows the macs to access the IRIS' drives but not the other way around. |---------------------------------| "The obvious is that | Rodney Hoinkes | which is least | Centre for Landscape Research | understood and most | University of Toronto | difficult to answer." | rodney@dgp.toronto.edu | |---------------------------------|