You may not connect both at the same time to the drive's connections. However you can share the volume from either OS.
Bob
I am planning on purchasing a Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo 1 TB external hard drive. It has two Firewire 800, a Firewire 400 and a USB 2.0 connection in the back.
I would like to be able to connect this external hard drive to two seperate computers. I have a G5 and a Dell laptop. I plan on connecting the G5 to the Maxtor with the Firewire 800 connection and I plan on connecting thhe Dell laptop with either the Firewire 400 or USB 2.0 connection.
Is it possible to have both of these computers in this type of setup access files at the same time off of this same drive?

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