Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 00:05:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Joshua Goodall <joshua@roughtrade.net> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shared bus Message-ID: <200107050705.f6575ax01317@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jul 2001 07:47:02 BST." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107050743440.31772-100000@elm.phenome.org>
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> I'm sure this is at least an OAQ if not a FAQ, but still. The archives
> didn't help me.
>
> I want to experiment with shared-bus and shared-disk setups under -STABLE,
> in particular shared-readonly and shared-raw fs's. Without getting into
> FC-AL or dual-ported disks, what are my options for experimentation?
> What's "known to work already"?
The simplest setup is two SCSI controllers, one at each end of a SCSI
bus, with the initiator ID set differently on each controller.
You may have some work to do wrt. reservations, etc. though, since I
don't think we support this mode out-of-the-box.
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