Can I -SHARE- external Hard Drive between machines at the SAME time?

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drewpropsdrewprops
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
You guys,

Can I take an external firewire hard drive that has two firewire ports on it and run one firewire cable to a machine running OS 9.x and run another cable from the second port to a DIFFERENT machine running OS X and have it WORK??



This just occurred to me...but I'm too chicken to try it out without asking around first!!



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  • Reply 1 of 8
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    i don't think so. you'd have to drop one machine into target disk mode, then you could have access to all the drives.



    i'm guessing that two machines trying to control one drive would really piss it off.



    but hey, who knows. it might work, give it a try and let us know how it goes.
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  • Reply 2 of 8
    kraig911kraig911 Posts: 912member
    i tried my external drive to my powermac at the office and my powerbook and it didn't work. Only one could see it first, however it did work for the external cd-burner-go figure
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  • Reply 3 of 8
    drewpropsdrewprops Posts: 2,321member
    I figured that one computer would "claim" the drive before the other one....but sharing the CD burner between machines is pretty cool!
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  • Reply 4 of 8
    pontonponton Posts: 43member
    You can share a HDD between two computers over a network. I do this all the time with my MO drives, which I have attached to my desktop system, but can access from my PB over my Airport connection.
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  • Reply 5 of 8
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    you can share over a network but that's not what this guy is trying. he's trying to get two machines to both access a firewire drive at the same time from different machines.



    i'm guessing there's no way this is going to work.
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  • Reply 6 of 8
    pontonponton Posts: 43member
    When I use the setup I mentioned, I can read from and write to the MO from both of my systems. Obviously, the one connected by the network is slower. If the question is sharing hard drive resources between several systems, I'd look for some type of network storage device.
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  • Reply 7 of 8
    altivec_2.0altivec_2.0 Posts: 995member
    Get a firewire hub
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  • Reply 8 of 8
    cosmocosmo Posts: 662member
    [quote]Originally posted by Altivec_2.0:

    <strong>Get a firewire hub</strong><hr></blockquote>



    a firewire hub just allows for more devices to be attached the the same machine



    2 machines can only access one firewire drive via a network AFAIK (machine A connected directly the external drive and the machine B connected to the machine A via the network (airport, eithernet, etc))
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