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- From: hennes@stack.urc.tue.nl (Hennes Passmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: HELP needed: HD
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 18:54:36 GMT
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Golinvaux Benjamin (golinvau@elap50.montefiore.ulg.ac.be) wrote:
- : Does anyone know of a trick
- : to connect a PC HD to my
- : old A500...
-
- If the disk is IDE or SCSI, just buy an hostadaptor and you're amiga
- can use the disk.
-
- : Also, is it possible
- : to share the HD between the two
- : machines ?
-
- If the disk is SCSI, then yes, just make (atleast) 2 partitions on it,
- one formatted by the amiga (readable only by the amiga) and one formatted
- by the pc (readable by the pc and by the amiga (crossdos) ).
-
- There are some drawbacks though, both machines must be connected to the same
- earth (spelling?). Simultanious writing to the same partition will destroy the
- data on that partition (use the diskchange command manually before writing to
- the pc-partition from the amiga side if your pc is turned on and possibly a
- few more.
-
- : I'm a real beginner so
- : be very clear, please...
-
- If the disk is SCSI and if you're going to do this, mail me first.
- (hennes@stack.urc.tue.nl)
-
- : Thank you
-
- : Benjamin.
-
- -Hennes
-