CompuServe Messages

Steven: You can't share drives on 2 different controllers? Gee, I better not tell that to my Amiga or the 486 next to it, as they both share the same SCSI bus between the 2 machines! I have the PC controller set to ID5, and the Amiga's controller to ID7, and all the other ID's are filled except ID1 which is still open. I currently have my fixed HDs for use only by the Amiga, but my CDROM drive, TAPE drive, and SyQuest drive are all usable by either machine. I'm running SVR3.2 Interactive Unix on the 486, and somebody wrote an Amiga filesystem for Linux (A Unix Clone), and if I can get that up and running on real Unix, I'll at least have read only access to my Amiga HD's from the PC as well. As a test, I've even had both the Amiga, and the PC cd'ed to the same directory on the CDROM, and typed in an 'ls' on both machines, and hit both return keys at the same time, and had no problems, both directory listings appeared almost at the same time. I don't know if they both actually read the CDROM, or if they both just read the same flow of data from the CDROM, or what, but there wasn't any slowdown because they were both accessing the drive at the same time. Of course, if the drive was a read/write drive I don't think I'd want to do this, but in a read only situation, I see no problems. // -Mike Schiller \X/ AMIGA! On AutoPilot in sunny Fort Lauderdale