[5970] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: question about lvd.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Ledford)
Mon Feb 22 21:37:54 1999
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:29:18 -0500
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: Jeremy Hansen <jeremy@xxedgexx.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Jeremy Hansen wrote:
>
> I've been talking to people at Raid Inc. about a shared scsi bus.
> Basically I'd like about 5 machines to share the same drive space. The
> guy says, "Oh, you can do that with our LVD controller". I say, wait, I'm
> already using LVD.
>
> I'm using an Adaptec U2W. Can I hook multiple machines up to the same
> ribbon?
>
> If not, can you suggest what to look at to achieve what I can to do.
Yes, you can hook them up to the same ribbon using that controller. They
won't be able to talk to each other since target mode support in the aic7xxx
driver isn't done, and they won't easily share hard disks unless they are
mounted read-only all the time.
--
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Opinions expressed are my own, but
they should be everybody's.
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