Richard P. Grant <rpg14[at]yahoo.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

> In article <1fxiitx.1fks0wr1gxlznqN%{$usenet$}[at]apple-juice.co.uk>,
> {$usenet$}[at]apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote:
>
> > Richard P. Grant <rpg14[at]yahoo.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > > Given an external FW HD, with two FW ports, is it possible/safe to mount
> > > it on two Macs simultaneously? (OS Jag.6)
> >
> > Possible, yes. Safe, no.
> >
> > Too many cooks will quite possibly ruin this particular broth.
>
> In what way 'ruin'? I want to copy some big files over; I'm not
> planning on doing simultaneous read/write.

How do you know that the OS isn't going to do a simultaneous read/write?

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In article <1fxip9o.3doybne1ieikN%me3[at]privacy.net>,
me3[at]privacy.net (zoara) wrote:

> Richard P. Grant <rpg14[at]yahoo.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
>
> > In article <1fxiitx.1fks0wr1gxlznqN%{$usenet$}[at]apple-juice.co.uk>,
> > {$usenet$}[at]apple-juice.co.uk (D.M. Procida) wrote:
> >
> > > Richard P. Grant <rpg14[at]yahoo.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Given an external FW HD, with two FW ports, is it possible/safe to mount
> > > > it on two Macs simultaneously? (OS Jag.6)
> > >
> > > Possible, yes. Safe, no.
> > >
> > > Too many cooks will quite possibly ruin this particular broth.
> >
> > In what way 'ruin'? I want to copy some big files over; I'm not
> > planning on doing simultaneous read/write.
>
> How do you know that the OS isn't going to do a simultaneous read/write?

It's MY OS, it can't multitask.

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