From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 09:21:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC24416A4B3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3CEB43FB1 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:21:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AF55C72DA8; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC80C72DA3; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:21:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Jason C. Wells" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20031009092026.K56326@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple Hosts on same CompactPCI bus X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 16:21:29 -0000 On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Jason C. Wells wrote: > If I were to run multiple servers on a CompactPCI bus, could those servers > access multiple discs through the same SCSI host adapter? What I mean is > that server-0 would mount sd0 and server-1 would mount sd1, both through > scsi host adapter #1. Unless the controller does some nifty magic, I don't think FreeBSD supports the idea of shared devices or PCI busses for that matter. Could be interesting to try if the hardware is free :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org