One SCSI tape connected to 2 hosts?

From: Antonio Carlini <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
Date: Mon Jun 17 18:00:19 2002

>My vaxstation 4000/60's host scsi id is also 6.

The early DEC SCSI machines set the host adapter
to ID 6, leaving the highest priority ID (7) free. I
read something somewhere that suggested that
this was insurance just in case something came
along that demanded to be the highest priority
thing on the bus.

Apparently nothing did because the later machines
allow the host adapter ID to be set via the console.

Typically disks are given lower numbers than tapes,
CDROMs seem to sit in the middle. I doubt that it
matters in most configurations (it's certainly nowhere
near as critical as, say, Qbus priority).

Antonio
 
Received on Mon Jun 17 2002 - 18:00:19 BST