sharing FW drive w/OS-X

[Marc Wiz]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:52:30PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been battling this for some time, and I figured perhaps someone here
> has done this already.  I have a 60GB IDE drive in a firewire enclosure.
> Works great w/FreeBSD.  It's partitioned like so:
> 
> Offset       Size(ST)        End     Name  PType       Desc  Subtype
> Flags
> 
>          0         63         62        -     12     unused        0
>         63   94365747   94365809    da0s1      8    freebsd      165
>   94365810   22860495  117226304    da0s2      7        fat        6
>  117226305       5103  117231407        -     12     unused        0
> 
> 
> And I'd like to use one of those spare fdisk partitons (not a slice) on my
> OS-X machine for backup purposes.  The "fat" partition is left over from a
> test to see if a "newfs_msdos" partition would mount on OS-X (it did).
> Any idea on the partition ID for HFS?
> 

While we're talking about Firewire is it possible to have the
firewire enclosure connected to two systems at the same time so you
don't have to go about unplugging and plugging cables?

Assuming that the above can be done, what about simultaenous access
to the device (both systems accessing the device at the same time)?
Will it work if only reads are done?  I won't open the can of worms
of simultaneous write access :-)

Thanks,
Marc
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