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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 1998 14:24:21 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        shimon@simon-shapiro.org
Cc:        ken@plutotech.com, FreeBSD-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, semen@iclub.nsu.ru
Subject:   Re: SDT-7000 and other DDS-2 tapes
Message-ID:  <199803292124.OAA02989@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980329133004.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> from Simon Shapiro at "Mar 29, 98 01:30:04 pm"

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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

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