On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 10:42 AM, Douglas Hawkins wrote: > OK, here is a good one, HAs anyone tried to share a > USB hub from a PC to a MAC so that they could share > IE, ZIP DRIVES, and Printers? Thoughts????? Dug
You can get USB a-b switch type devices to do this.... but you'd have to flip the switch each time to change which computer is accessing the devices. USB is not designed to allow sharing; the 'S' in USB is 'serial'; USB is like SCSI in a lot of ways, with each device having an ID, power requirements, etc. If connected to two computers at once, the device may have a hard time determining which computer to draw power from, which computer to accept an ID from, which computer it's supposed to talk to. Sharing zip drives could be dangerous to your data, as well.... if both computers tried to write to the drive simultaneously, things could get very very ugly. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
