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1 External Hard Drive to 2 Computers???

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michael-appleru

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I want to connect 1 External Hard Drive to 2 Computers. How do I do this????

I have tryed to use both wirewire ports but when i plugged in the second computer it wnated to dasiychain it to the other one both computers freezed as a result DONT TRY THIS!!

Do I have to get a splitter (Plug spliter into External hard drive then two firewire cords come out of one) is this possible???

kinda like a headphone splitter but with firewire ports
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Yes - you can't just plug it into both USB or FW ports. It doesn't really work like that, for reasons I am not in the mood to go into.

Best to share it over the network.
 
On a related note, on the back of my external HD, there is a firewire port, a second firewire port (the i-link looking one) and a USB port.

If I connect it to three different computers at once can it still work? Can I read/write simultaneously?
 
CHOOSE Only ONE PORT To Connect A Cable To The Computer

pknz said:
On a related note, on the back of my external HD, there is a firewire port, a second firewire port (the i-link looking one) and a USB port.

If I connect it to three different computers at once can it still work? Can I read/write simultaneously?
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I hope this is a joke post. But just in case:

No. No. No.

One Firewire Cable to the computer OR One USB 2 cable to the computer.

The second FW Cable is to add another FW device - usually another FW HD.
 
Another = Any

Allotriophagy said:
Well, any FW device really. It allows you to daisychain several devices on one computer port without a hub. Like SCSI.
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I said "another" meaning "any" and then added "usually" meaning those are mostly what people hang with. Old SCSI had a 7 drive limit. I have 12 HDs hangin off different FW and USB 2 ports on this Quad G5. Plus an external FW DVD Writer and a pair of EyeTV digital broadcast tuners - one FW and one USB 2.
 
Multimedia said:
I said "another" meaning "any" and then added "usually" meaning those are mostly what people hang with. Old SCSI had a 7 drive limit. I have 12 HDs hangin off different FW and USB 2 ports on this Quad G5. Plus an external FW DVD Writer and a pair of EyeTV digital broadcast tuners - one FW and one USB 2.
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Wow, maybe you should think about getting a new MacPro with 3 TB of storage lol:p

But that would mean shelling out a lot of $$ and meanting that you would have to move all of those files on External Drives over to your new computer :(
 
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