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Date:      Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:21:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple Hosts on same CompactPCI bus
Message-ID:  <20031009092026.K56326@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.44.0310072107140.59201-100000@s1.stradamotorsports.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0310072107140.59201-100000@s1.stradamotorsports.com>

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On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Jason C. Wells wrote:

> If I were to run multiple servers on a CompactPCI bus, could those servers
> access multiple discs through the same SCSI host adapter?  What I mean is
> that server-0 would mount sd0 and server-1 would mount sd1, both through
> scsi host adapter #1.

Unless the controller does some nifty magic, I don't think FreeBSD
supports the idea of shared devices or PCI busses for that matter.  Could
be interesting to try if the hardware is free :)

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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