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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nine_USA who wrote (14627)	11/23/2004 1:20:18 AM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 14778

Why do you want to do that? "Can I run 2 PCs individually & simultaneously which can both, read & write to the same external HHD, say a 120 Gb Iomega?" This isn't a reasonable expectation without an operating system directly controlling access to the hard drive, or, at least, some kind of OS-specific (or file-system-specific) controller attached to the hard drive. That is, controlling access to the drive such that the 2 computers don't stumble over each other and make a mess is beyond what is reasonable to expect from a common external hard drive. If you really need this, and can't or don't want to do it using Windows networking and a hard drive inside one of the computers, I'd suggest you look at NAS (Network Attached Storage) appliances. I say just make a 2 PC network and be done with it.