On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 02:51 AM, Joost van de Griek wrote: > On 2003-03-10 19:52, "Bruce Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Joost van de Griek wrote: >> >>> Actually, it's not all that weird. Using a regular SCSI cable, the >>> PowerBook >>> would indeed see (and mount) all the Quadra's drives on the SCSI >>> chain. >>> However, the fact that both motherboard SCSI controllers will be set >>> to SCSI >>> ID 7, would cause some serious ID conflict issues. This might >>> explain all the >>> I/O and data corruption errors. >> >> Never having done this, I'll trust your experience...myself, I would >> have thought they simply wouldn't work at all (due to 2 ID 7's on the >> bus) > > I have never tried it in this particular setup, but way back in the > day when > I had MSX computers, I would hook up two computers to one (expensive!) > SCSI > HD, setting both controllers to different IDs. It sorta worked, if you > were > careful.
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