[3927] in linux-scsi channel archive
RE: questions about external SCSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Santosh. A)
Fri May 15 08:48:05 1998
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 11:00:22 +0530 (IST)
From: "Santosh. A" <santoshr@tagore.wipinfo.soft.net>
Reply-To: "Santosh. A" <santoshr@tagore.wipinfo.soft.net>
To: Ulisses Alonso Camaro <ulisses@pusa.eleinf.uv.es>
Cc: "CAMPBELL, BARRIE B " <BCC035232@acad.sunybroome.edu>,
linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980514174221.19075A-100000@pusa.eleinf.uv.es>
>
>I read about it in scsi faq (comp.perepherials.scsi?) that this must be
>supported by the OSs that share the scsi chain, also only one Computer
>should reset the SCSI bus on startup...
usually, shared scsi friendly target drivers(or high level drivers)
will avoid a bus reset at start of day.
>
>I have heard that Apples does this
>
>I have not tried with it & and I don't know nobody who uses it with
>standard computers...
>
shared scsi is a concept mostly applied in highly available systems
which require a certain level of fault tolerance and redundant
fail-over paths. this kind of setup would usually involve external
scsi devices like disk arrays.
thanks,
santosh
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