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#Bridgeboard HD Access

    23-Dec-90 02:37:03
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Mike Schiller 76416,3065
Mike, Under the current SCSI design used by all (that I know of) Amiga host adapters, there can only be 1 host. Under differential SCSI, there can be more than one host, but I know of no one making a differential host adapter for the Amiga. But, what you can do, is set up an XT host adapter on the Bridge side and attach and partition one of your drives for MS-DOS on that drive, and partition the rest of the drive using ADISK as an Amiga drive (via DJMount). Yes, that partition will be slow, but if you plan carefully, I think you'll find that you can do 99% of your work on the native Amiga drive and hardly use that DJMounted drive much at all. The MS-DOS partition on that drive however, will be 'full speed' since it's directly connected to the XT bus. I've got 100 Meg on the Amiga side of my setup, (over 3 HD's) and I hardly ever use 20 of that. I've also got a 4th HD on the MS-DOS side (20 Meg) so I don't need to make a separate parition for either side to share…but if I had to…I could easily have moved that 20 Meg from the Amiga side to the MS-DOS side and hardly miss it at all. Don