From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Jul 4 23:52:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (dhcp44-21.dis.org [216.240.44.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0914537B403 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 23:52:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6575ax01317; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 00:05:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107050705.f6575ax01317@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Joshua Goodall Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shared bus In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jul 2001 07:47:02 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 00:05:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message