onghenam@cs.rpi.edu (Mike Onghena) (06/14/91)
This is one of those 'You Must Be on DRUGS' questions: Since my scsi drive has 2 ports, can I use it on 2 macs without dealing with a network? I mean, plug mac#1 into the top scsi plug and mac #2 into the bottom plug. If both macs wanted to be on at the same time, I guess the SCSI id of one of them would have to be changed from the built in default of 0.(?) I doubt this is possible, but what if only 1 mac is on at a time? Would this lead to a termination problem? Why do this? Why not! Mike
yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) (06/17/91)
In article <748k!9-@rpi.edu> onghenam@cs.rpi.edu (Mike Onghena) writes: > This is one of those 'You Must Be on DRUGS' questions: > > Since my scsi drive has 2 ports, can I use it on 2 macs without dealing > with a network? I mean, plug mac#1 into the top scsi plug and mac #2 > into the bottom plug. > You must be on drugs! > If both macs wanted to be on at the same time, I guess the SCSI id of > one of them would have to be changed from the built in default of 0.(?) > > I doubt this is possible, but what if only 1 mac is on at a time? > Would this lead to a termination problem? > May be. I've had some of older hard drives hang the SCSI bus if the drive is not turned on. So, I assume the same could happen if you have a second mac (turned off) connected. > Why do this? Why not! Go for it! 1/2 :-) > Mike > =Mike -- == Michael K. Yee <yee@osf.org> -+- OSF/Motif Team == Open Software Foundation - 11 Cambridge Center - Cambridge, MA 02142 == "Live simply, so that others may simply live."