[X-Newbies] Sharing External HD

[Tony Johansen]

On 13/7/2005 1:26 AM, "Michael Winter" <winter at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jul 12, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Morland, Chris wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Have a question about external HD: Can you share an external HD
>> with two computers via firewire ports?
> 
> If you're asking can you just plug two Macs into the same external FW
> drive and have it work, the answer is probably -but its a dangerous
> thing to do. At least I wouldn't do it.
 
This brings up the obvious, what then are the 2 firewire ports for on the
external hard drive? I've wondered about that myself. Is there some use
other than connecting to another computer?

Tony