I tried: problems!

[Medi Montaseri]

You could have two adapters on two uniqe IDs. This is only of of
the SCSI requirements. The other spec is that there shall not be
two initiators on the same bus. So as long as one of the cards
is not claiming to be initiator, all is well.

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Medi Montaseri                               medi@CyberShell.com
Unix Distributed Systems Engineer            HTTP://www.CyberShell.com
CyberShell Engineering
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On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, David Lang wrote:

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> actually as long as they are on different scsi id's you should be able to,
> shouldn't you?
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> David Lang
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> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Medi Montaseri wrote:
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> > 
> > You might've covered this, but you know you can not have two initiators
> > on the same SCSI bus. I recall reading something about installing and
> > uninstalling the SCSI driver during take over.
> > 
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> > Medi Montaseri                               medi@CyberShell.com
> > Unix Distributed Systems Engineer            HTTP://www.CyberShell.com
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> > On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, David Lang wrote:
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> > > are you trying to run linux from the shared or local drive?`
> > > 
> > > you may be able to swap the drive assignments by switching the slots of
> > > your scsi controllers.
> > > 
> > > David Lang
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Amit wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > 	I do not own but have access to HW needed for Linux HA. I am familiar
> > > > with Digital clusters for NT and at present the system uses this only.
> > > > ie both servers and Shared HDD power on at same instance and boot's
> > > > NT. After that one primary cluster server takes control of HDD and on
> > > > second server the HDD goes off line.
> > > > 
> > > >  I was trying to install Linux HA today. The HW is like:
> > > > 
> > > > 2 * Intel PPro200MHz(Prioris HX6000) servers.
> > > > 2 * Ethernet cards on every system
> > > > 2 * SCSI Disk controllers on every system
> > > > 	One connected to local 2 GB HDD, CDRom.
> > > > 	Second connected to a 2GB disk on shared SCSI bus by differential Y
> > > > cable.(Actually this is a RAID array 310 box which contained 3*2GB HDD
> > > > utilized in RAID V, but to install Linux on servers I moved one HDD to
> > > > each server)
> > > > 
> > > > 	Now the problem is that I am unable to boot Linux with keeping shared
> > > > HDD box ON. I tried several combinations to boot/install linux and
> > > > they are like-
> > > > 
> > > > 1. installed on local HDD(/dev/sdb2). since /dev/sda1 = Shared HDD no
> > > > matter what I try/edit configuration. Anyway this happens in NT
> > > > installation as well.
> > > > 2. installed on shared HDD(/dev/sda1). when it comes lilo to boot the
> > > > system boots from local HDD and does not sees shared box at all. Even
> > > > though in lilo configuration during installation it asks for only two
> > > > things-first install lilo on MBR of /dev/sda1 & second is install lilo
> > > > files in /dev/sdb2. I tried both -but unsuccessful.
> > > > 
> > > > Please tell me what to do!
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Amit Gupta
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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