CompuServe Messages

Manfred, You cannot "share" the same drives on two different controllers. What you can do is to move the drive from one controller to the other, assuming that both the Amiga drive and the PC drive shared the same formats, which they don't. However, CD ROMs could be read on either side assuming the Amiga had a CD ROM filesystem that could read CDs formatted on a PC filesystem. However, Fish disks could only provide you with a diskette formatted to be read on the Amiga, not on the PC. The best you could hope to do is to have a drive which could be moved from the Amiga controller to the PC controller. Whether you could actually read CDs on both sides would depend on the filesystem used to create the CD. There are Amiga CD filesystems which will read PC CDs, but I don't think any PCs could read CDs formatted only for the Amiga. Still, you could only move the drive itself from one controller to the other, but you couldn't truly "share" the drive – that is access it both from the PC and Amiga at the same time. As for the last comment, what I meant was that the PC cannot access a scsi device connected to the Amiga. The only way the bridgeboard can provide access to an Amiga scsi device is through the psuedo-drive or through JLINKed virtual drives (except through AREAD and AWRITE.)