Re: Sharing SCSI Tape Drive

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From: Chris Pirih, proverbs at wolfene...
Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 00:00

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In article <3189F476.744C@qntm.com>, Ralf-Peter Rohbeck <rrohbeck@qntm.com> wrote:
| 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. 

You need to make sure the two hosts don't try to mount each others'
hard disks.  The easiest way to do this is to one SCSI adapter in 
each host for the shared devices (tape drives, CDROMs, scanners), 
and a separate adapter for host-specific devices (HDDs).

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chris

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From: _@_._ (Chris Pirih, proverbs at wolfenet dot com)
Subject: Re: Sharing SCSI Tape Drive
Date: 1996/05/04
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