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Date:      Wed, 19 May 1999 12:49:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Daniel Unruh <unruh@wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
To:        Christian Hammers <ch@genesis.westend.com>
Cc:        aic7xxx@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sharing one SCSI drive with two motherboards
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.00.9905191247170.3082-100000@wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <19990519134521.B627@genesis.westend.com>

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On Wed, 19 May 1999, Christian Hammers wrote:

> I want to share one scsi drive with two mainboards. But Linux 
> (currently kernel version 2.0.36 but any other possible) gives me
> many error messages when doing this :-(
> 
> I like to have sda1 for the first computer, sda2 for the second and
> sda3 as shared partition. The "shared" partition will used i.e. mounted
> only by one computer at a time. Only if one computer is unpingable (i.e. 
> has crashed the other computer mounts this partition, does a fsck and
> uses it.

You might have a cabling problem / inproper termination.
And of course the two SCSI controlers MUST NOT have the same SCSI ID.

Do the problems occur when one of the computers is turned off?
What are the exact error messages?



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