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Date:	Sat, 26 May 2001 12:55:01 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Cross-platform maintenance partitions & file access (was: System Commander, ECS, etc.)

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jr_fox@pacbell.net wrote:
>
> Steven told me that I wouldn't want to have an existing
> Warp 3 or 4 serving as a Maintenance Partition for an ECS
> one -- or vice-versa -- but there wasn't time for him to
> elaborate as to Why. ... I found that I preferred having
> a very well-equipped Warp Maint. Prt'n. over a barebones
> one. ... I like to have everything able to see and
> access everything else... JFS would mess that scheme up

It's time for a network and a Keyboard-Video-Mouse (KVM) switch box.

Put eCS on a different machine and use the switch box so you can look at
either the older Warp machine or the eCS machine. (The cheap KVM boxes
are $15-$25 plus a cable and don't have electronic switching. They
sometimes lock up a machine due to the keyboard-mouse switching, so you
may want to use a separate keyboard and mouse for each machine and just
switch the monitor. Expensive KVM's start at a couple hundred bucks.)

Each machine can have a "compatible" Maintenance Partition.

The network will allow file access to all. Of course, that can be a
problem if you're connected to the Internet . . .

- Peter

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