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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:30:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kyle McPeek <kyle@stdio.com>
To:        "Stephen C. Comoletti" <stevec@delanet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Clustering nt and bsd on shared raid box
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990914172540.21133y-100000@heathers.stdio.com>
In-Reply-To: <37DE8F21.F0FD1FC9@delanet.com>

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I have done this type of setup with 3 nt boxes and 1 bsd box on an
HP autoraid unit.  

Just make sure you get the termination correct.

kyle.

On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Stephen C. Comoletti wrote:

> I've recently setup an external raid box from metastor. It's got a FreeBSD
> 3.2 box serving nfs for my web/ftp/shell servers. We were wanting to also
> support our few NT based machines and have run into a few problems. I was
> wondering if anyone has successfully run bsd and NT both on the same scsi
> bus? The Metastor unit has a Symbios differential raid5 controller, and I
> have a adaptec 2944uw in both the BSD and NT boxes. I've been told NT has
> problems with file locking/etc..however would this apply if it was only
> accessing a partition for itself formatted as ntfs? Leaving the BSD box to
> access the other partitions for the unix servers? Only emails I've seen
> similar to this were talking about multiple BSD boxes, or one guy who did it
> with an Amiga and a BSD box.. I do have NT Enterprise Server, which is
> supposedly capable but OSSI (company who sold me the metastor unit) will not
> support a BSD/NT combination..and I have no desire to trash the data on the
> unit in testing.
> 
> 
> --
> Stephen Comoletti
> Systems Administrator
> Delanet, Inc.  http://www.delanet.com
> ph: (302) 326-5800 fax: (302) 326-5802
> 
> 
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