tech-kern: Re: sharing disks on the same bus with multiple hosts

Subject: Re: sharing disks on the same bus with multiple hosts
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/09/2004 20:18:24

fair@NetBSD.org ("Erik E. Fair") writes:

>NetBSD supports at least three busses that can have multiple hosts on 
>them: SCSI, FireWire, and USB. Has anyone we know actually tried to 
>share, say, a disk between multiple hosts on the same SCSI bus? 

Firewire requires a "non-exclusive" SBP2 login and the Firewire device
itself has to support that. This works fine under Linux but with NetBSD
there is currently no way to configure the driver for "non-exclusive"
login.

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