Subject: Re: connecting multiple machines to a single SCSI disk ?
To: None <curt@portal.ca, netbsd@vu.com>
From: Max Bell <mbell@europa.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/09/1995 11:34:00
>From: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>
>Subject: Re: connecting multiple machines to a single SCSI disk ?
>> i would like to connect a number of Pentiums running NetBSD together
>> using a single SCSI disk.
>[ . . . ]
>> provided i kept the SCSI cable length within a reasonable length, is such
>> a thing possible?
>This connection should work just fine, assuming that you've set
>all of the controller cards to different SCSI IDs. The machine with
>the highest ID (7, usually) will have priority on the bus, priority
>descends with the SCSI ID.
>From the above, I assume NetBSD's SCSI drivers support multi-master
operation?
Max