How simultaneously connect a FireWire hard drive to 2 Macs?

[lPHONE]

I am trying to simultaneously connect a FireWire HDD to my MBP (running SL) and a PPC G4 (Tiger). It has 2 FW ports but it will not let me mount on both desktops. As I recall, there was a way to easily do this?

 

[mulo]

there is no way.
the only thin you can do is to share the drive from one mac.
the second port is for daisy chaining with other devices.

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

there is no way.
the only thin you can do is to share the drive from one mac.
the second port is for daisy chaining with other devices.

This.

Also, you're lucky it didn't let you mount it on both machines. You would have corrupted the contents of the entire disk had you done so.

 

[Consultant]

Takes few seconds to share the drive.

For best performance, use gagabit ethernet network to share.