Hi,

I have done that once with two Intel based machines and a cd drive 
as far as I kan remember there were no problems.

mike

On 27 Mar 2000, at 7:07, Jon Lindgren wrote:

> I've got two ss5's running 1.4.1.  Currently, they back themselves up
> via a tape drive on a remote machine (via tar and rmt).  I'd like to
> locally attach an Exabyte 8500 drive which I've got laying around, but
> I'd like to attach it to both locally.  Can I share the SCSI bus
> between them?  I know it's electrically and logically possible, but
> how might NetBSD handle the sharing of the device?  I was going to set
> one ss5 to initiate at ID 6, the other at ID 7, then set the tape
> drive to something shared, such as 5.  This would be on a second scsi
> channel i.e. it shouldn't affect my boot disks or the chain they sit
> on.
> 
> Will NetBSD cough at me?  Or will it hum along?
> 
> Or should I just try it?
> 
> -Jon
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