neese@adaptx1.UUCP (11/03/90)
>/* ---------- "Syquest SQ455 45 Meg Removable" ---------- */ >I am looking for a Syquest drive to hook to both my Mac and PC. I have heard >that the Mac disable SCSI Parity checking on the bus which may be a problem >in sharing the device however my 1542A will let me disable parity also. Does >anyone know if this is possible? I'm not sure what the question is. >I want to take a SCSI cable from my mac to the Syquest. Then another SCSI >cable from the Syquest to my IBM. I wish to be able to swap from an IBM to a >Mac cartridge and then mount that cartridge from either machine. Is this >possible? This can be done, BUT you cannot have both CPU's access the drive at the same time, unless you have a driver for both systems that know how to reserve/release the drive, to keep the computers from colliding with each other. A driver would also be needed for making the filesystems look like they should for each system. >Lastly does anyone know where a good deal can be found on this drive? The >best I have found is $579 for an external drive with 1 cartridge. Don't know any good source for this product. Roy Neese Adaptec Senior SCSI Applications Engineer UUCP @ uunet!utacfd!cs.utexas.edu! {nominil,merch,cpe}!adaptex!neese uunet!mlite!adaptex!neese