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Matt Stahley · January 20th, 2003, 07:48 PM

Is it possible to mount one external FW drive(2 FW ports) to two macs simultaneously? I have tried it but will only mount to the first computer on port 1.

OS 10.2.3

Matt

Jeff Donald · January 20th, 2003, 08:03 PM

No, it is not possible to connect via FireWire.

Jeff

Matt Stahley · January 20th, 2003, 08:11 PM

thanks Jeff

Rhett Allen · January 20th, 2003, 08:15 PM

It is possible but to complicated to be practicle. If you were to buy the SAN Cube the problems would be taken care of but you would have to buy someone else's product. There are a few of them on the market that do this but there are better options in my opinion.

Jeff Donald · January 20th, 2003, 08:50 PM

Most people want to share drives to be economical. The Sancube starts at $2,000 and goes up from there. If your needing to share files, build a small network or buy another drive.

Jeff

Rhett Allen · January 20th, 2003, 09:12 PM

That was actually my point. If you needed it to be firewire it could be done, but for the price you could get something, in my opinion, a little better. Especially when you look at the capacity of the San Cube and others like it. You could set up an internal ATA RAID with equal or greater capacity and flexibility (through networking) for a fraction of the price.

January 20th, 2003, 07:48 PM	#1
Matt Stahley Major Player Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Waynesboro, PA Posts: 648	Is it possible.....? Is it possible to mount one external FW drive(2 FW ports) to two macs simultaneously? I have tried it but will only mount to the first computer on port 1. OS 10.2.3 Matt

January 20th, 2003, 08:03 PM	#2
Jeff Donald Warden Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Clearwater, FL Posts: 8,287	No, it is not possible to connect via FireWire. Jeff

January 20th, 2003, 08:11 PM	#3
Matt Stahley Major Player Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Waynesboro, PA Posts: 648	thanks Jeff

January 20th, 2003, 08:15 PM	#4
Rhett Allen Major Player Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 607	It is possible but to complicated to be practicle. If you were to buy the SAN Cube the problems would be taken care of but you would have to buy someone else's product. There are a few of them on the market that do this but there are better options in my opinion.

January 20th, 2003, 08:50 PM	#5
Jeff Donald Warden Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Clearwater, FL Posts: 8,287	Most people want to share drives to be economical. The Sancube starts at $2,000 and goes up from there. If your needing to share files, build a small network or buy another drive. Jeff

January 20th, 2003, 09:12 PM	#6
Rhett Allen Major Player Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 607	That was actually my point. If you needed it to be firewire it could be done, but for the price you could get something, in my opinion, a little better. Especially when you look at the capacity of the San Cube and others like it. You could set up an internal ATA RAID with equal or greater capacity and flexibility (through networking) for a fraction of the price.