Multiple Hosts on same CompactPCI bus

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Thu Oct 9 09:21:29 PDT 2003


On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Jason C. Wells wrote:

> If I were to run multiple servers on a CompactPCI bus, could those servers
> access multiple discs through the same SCSI host adapter?  What I mean is
> that server-0 would mount sd0 and server-1 would mount sd1, both through
> scsi host adapter #1.

Unless the controller does some nifty magic, I don't think FreeBSD
supports the idea of shared devices or PCI busses for that matter.  Could
be interesting to try if the hardware is free :)

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