From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Mar 29 19:30:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03170 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thunderdome.plutotech.com (root@thunderdome.plutotech.com [206.168.67.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03095 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:29:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@panzer.plutotech.com) Received: from panzer.plutotech.com (ken@panzer.plutotech.com [206.168.67.125]) by thunderdome.plutotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA00123; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:24:23 -0700 (MST) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id OAA02989; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:24:21 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199803292124.OAA02989@panzer.plutotech.com> Subject: Re: SDT-7000 and other DDS-2 tapes In-Reply-To: from Simon Shapiro at "Mar 29, 98 01:30:04 pm" To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:24:21 -0700 (MST) Cc: ken@plutotech.com, FreeBSD-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, semen@iclub.nsu.ru X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28s (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Simon Shapiro wrote... > > On 25-Mar-98 Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > Simon Shapiro wrote... > >> > >> On 25-Mar-98 Ustimenko Semen wrote: > >> > > >> > Have somebody succesfuly used SDT-7000 under FreeBSD? > >> > >> Yes. Two of them in shared mode on a DPT controller. > > > > What do you mean by "in shared mode"? > > I use most of my SCSI devices on a shared bus between two FreeBSD boxes. > Part of the (still developing) High Availability Server I am working on. Interesting indeed. You might be interested to know that the CAM tape driver does a reserve unit on open, so any other initiators on the bus won't be able to muck with the drive when one initiator has it open. (of course, it cancels the reservation at final close) > I will make one of these servers pulicly open, so people can login and > look-see. Cool. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message