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- Subject: ramblings
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 23:10:45 -0700
- From: Howard Chu <howard@harry.lloyd.com>
-
- Well, I connected my new 1 gig hard drive to both my TT and Falcon
- simultaneously, and much as I expected, it worked. Only problem was I had to
- manually force media changes on one system after writing files from the other.
- I also didn't try writing from both systems simultaneously, although I was
- able to interleave reads (program load, etc.) on one while compiling on the
- other.
-
- I did a stab at a DMA shared memory driver a long time ago on MiNT 0.9xx when
- I was playing with this on my Mega and STe, but let it fall by the wayside
- because it stopped working when I hooked the Falcon up. I guess there was
- something about the Falcon's SCSI-2 controller that my ICD AdSCSI cards on the
- Mega and STe didn't like, but no such problem exists between the Falcon and the
- TT. My question now is, how much interest is there in this to the rest of the
- world? I would guess that not too many folks have more than 1 Atari system
- set up anyway...
-
- (In my own case, I've had as many as 5 Ataris online at once, and I always
- felt it was silly to transfer files by copying them to floppy and moving 'e
- around that way...)
-
- Hm... If you were to implement a shared memory device driver for tying together
- multiple systems over ACSI/SCSI, what functions/functionality would you want?
- I guess it's really a network pipe, not a shared memory, although it could be
- considered as such. (Suppose a number of machines, with full swapping
- implemented, and a shared swap database. Instant process migration...)
-