shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) (12/23/90)
I realize that 386/ix and DOS partitions on the same SCSI drive is
no big deal. However, I have never seen a discussion as to whether
a MacOS partition (I have an SE/30) could also reside on this same drive?
Is is a simple problem of not having the software (i.e. a format program
that wouldn't hose up the 386/ix and DOS partitions) on the Mac side to
accomplish the task?
I plan on getting a 380 meg SCSI drive and placing it in an external
box and hooking it up to my 386 using an Adaptech 1542 card. It would
be ideal if I could simply swap a cable (do 25DB {Mac SCSI} to 50 pin
Centronic conversion cables exist?) and access a MacOS partition on the
drive when I'm using my SE/30.
Just about everybody I've asked so far is well versed on either PC SCSI
equipment or Mac SCSI equipment but no one could bridge the gap and inform
me of the possibility of what I've just mentioned. I'm a complete neophyte
because this is going to be my first SCSI drive (I'm using MFMs now) but
hopefully some kind sole (i.e. Roy Neese, Doug Pintar ;-)) could help to
clarify things for me. Thanks so much.
P.S. Someone did mention to me that a partition could be setup to be a
Novell partition (with Columbia Data software) and the SE/30 could
in some way be linked thru the 386 to access the drive and use
the Novell partition would be usable by the Mac. This is too
expensive for me, though. [story of poor graduate student deleted...]
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Steve Hite
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