MIDI, SCSI, and Sample Dumps
SCSI Guidelines
10-4
Accessing a K2500 Internal Drive from the Mac
Access PC is one of the many programs for the Mac which allow it to format, read, and write to
DOS floppy disks and removable SCSI cartridges. However, we have discovered that it is
possible to format internal K2500 hard drives, even though the documentation claims to only
support removable media (not a fixed drive). Because the program claims not to be able to do
this, we do not necessarily recommend it.
The main thing to remember is:
Never change the disk contents (i.e., save or delete files) from the K2500 when the disk is
mounted by the Macintosh. If you do, this could easily lead to trashed files, directories, or even
the entire disk. Access PC has no way of knowing when the K2500 has modified the disk
structure, and it can just overwrite any state of the disk it thinks should be there. The safest
thing is to connect a drive to either the K2500 or the Mac, but not both at the same time. Of
course, you can't always predict when a Mac will access its drive, and it doesn't do SCSI bus
arbitration, so using the Mac while using the SCSI bus from the K2500 (e.g., doing a disk mode
operation) is also a bad idea, and can cause the Mac to hang.
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