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- From: craig@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Craig Dewick)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
- Subject: Re: SCSI computer to computer transfer?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 06:04:47 +1100
- Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney: +61-2-837-1183 V.42bis
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- References: <1993Jan20.130158.15414@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
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- Keywords: intercomputer communication
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- In <1993Jan20.130158.15414@klaava.Helsinki.FI> veijalai@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tony Veijalainen) writes:
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- >Mac Portable (/Duo) can appear as HD for Mac, I heard (and/or other way
- >arround). Is it possible to have to hosts accessing same drives and
- >possibly moving information memory to memory also?
-
- Yes, it certainly is possible. The SCSI spec details all the conditions
- needed for multiple hosts systems, and in fact most of the later SCSI
- controller chips include the necessary hardware to enable a multiple
- host system to be set up.
-
- As far as software is concerned, this is not my area. I've never
- actually tried to set up a multiple hosts system, but I would like to
- try if I could the appropriate backup.
-
- I have a ZRDOS machine here that has a SCSI hard drive on it,
- and my main machine (a sort of Unix-like 68k based box) also has a
- SCSI hard drive. If I could connect the two busses together, I could
- buy a large drive and have each machine access seperate partitions on
- the one drive.
-
- I doubt that multiple hosts systems are used very often, since the
- software is considerably more tricky from what i'm told.
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