Re: Sharing SCSI Tape Drive

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From: Carl J. Appellof
Date: Mon, 06 May 1996 00:00

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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. Not when I accessed the tape concurrently,
>obviously ;)
>

One thing you have to do with this approach is to change the SCSI 
initiator ID on the SCSI host adapter of one of your systems.  Funny 
things happen when both host adapters claim the same ID (default 7).
-- 
Carl Appellof
not speaking for
Digital Equipment Corporation

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From: "Carl J. Appellof" <cja@zso.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Sharing SCSI Tape Drive
Date: 1996/05/06
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