On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Andrew Sporner wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What level of shared scsi is currently supported in the kernel.  What
> I mean here is the ability to have multiple hosts on a scsi bus with
> different initiators.

AFAIK, the policy is "if I don't step on your feet, and you don't step on
mine, everything will work okay."

I have two boxes which share a tape drive with no problems.  Of course,
they _never_ try to use it at the same time... I remember having both
access it at the same time, and the result was a bunch of SCSI errors and
one hung machine :-(

It would be neat to be able to have a machine mount some SCSI disks as
r/w, then have a few other machines mount them r/o, but I think there are
caching issues with this right now.

-Jon
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