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Article #484Re: Sharing SCSI Tape Drive
From: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 00:00
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Mike Rothenberg wrote: > > Does anyone know of a device (Switch, MUX, etc.) that would allow > two different Unix systems to share the same SCSI tape drive? I > don't want to have to buy 2 expensive tape drives, and I don't > want to use NFS. Can't you just put the two boxes on the same bus? With good SCSI implementations, is should work... I did it between a PC and a VAX once and it worked perfectly. Not when I accessed the tape concurrently, obviously ;) Ralf-Peter -- ======================================================================== Ralf-Peter Rohbeck rrohbeck@qntm.com Quantum GmbH-Application Engineering-Central Europe (+49) 69-950767-18 Berner Str. 28, 60437 Frankfurt, Germany fax (+49) 69-950767-91 #include "disclaimer.h" tech support hotline (+49) 69-950767-26
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1c8,61dbba3b6d0fbc82 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1c8,public X-Google-Thread: f55cd,61dbba3b6d0fbc82 X-Google-Attributes: gidf55cd,public X-Google-Thread: fbad3,61dbba3b6d0fbc82 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbad3,public X-Google-Thread: 107ad7,61dbba3b6d0fbc82 X-Google-Attributes: gid107ad7,public From: Ralf-Peter Rohbeck <rrohbeck@qntm.com> Subject: Re: Sharing SCSI Tape Drive Date: 1996/05/03 Message-ID: <3189F476.744C@qntm.com> X-Deja-AN: 152766254 references: <4m392c$no9$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> to: Mike Rothenberg <70612.2027@CompuServe.COM> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Quantum Germany mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: rrohbeck@qntm.com newsgroups: comp.arch.storage,comp.archives.admin,comp.periphs.scsi,fj.comp.dev.tape x-mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Macintosh; I; 68K)