One SCSI tape connected to 2 hosts?

From: Pat Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Wed Jun 19 11:01:23 2002

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:

> It's true, Windows is not a candidate for this sort of experiment, since it
> goes out willy-nilly tagging the resources it thinks it has every second or
> so. You'd think LINUX would have a fairly decent SCSI channel interface, but
> it seems to be even more limited than the ones in Windows.

OK, what exactly makes you say this? I don't have a lot of experience
myself in dealing with low-level SCSI other than connecting devices and
using user-mode software to talk to them, so I don't know. However, I do
know that there are IP over SCSI and probably other things for Linux that
support, if not demand, multiple adaptors/systems being attached to the
SCSI chain. With Linux's 'generic' scsi driver, you should be able to do
just about anything with the adaptor that 1) the driver/hardware supports
and 2) you can think of writing an application for.

-- Pat
Received on Wed Jun 19 2002 - 11:01:23 BST