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Manfred, Well, you certainly can have a scsi controller on the PC side as well as on the Amiga side in the same box. However, you can transfer files from the Amiga side to the PC side without having to move the drive by using AREAD and AWRITE which are part of the Janus software. Of course, if you need to take the cartridge to a separate PC, that's a different problem and you would need to be able to move the drive from one machine to the other. Before I installed the multi-i/o card in my old 2000 I used a cheap Seagate ST02 scsi controller on the PC side with a separate scsi drive while running the 2000 off a Nexus scsi controller. What you cannot do is use an Amiga controller to run a scsi drive on the PC side except through the psuedo-drive. You can, however, partition a hard drive on the PC side running from a PC controller with an Amiga and PC partition. The Amiga partition would be used by the Amiga while the PC partition is used by the bridgeboard. You cannot transfer files between them except by using AREAD and AWRITE or by using CrossDos.