it's even worse than that
or better, depends on your definition of "better" :)
here is what i have:
the F720 spits out HVD scsi. i run a single LOOONG cable from the filer to a HVD -> LVD converter. the LVD from the converter goes to drive 8 of the library drive 9 is daisy chained off drive 8.
both drives are available to the filer.
other filers attach to other drives in the same library. some of these other filers are attached to a single drive, some to two daisy chained drives.
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:00:17AM -0600, Alan Sparks wrote:
Lance R Bailey said:
i have a qualstar library with the drives attached to a linux host, F720, F87 and F85 filers.
the scsi number is set on the library. each drive slot has a different number. when the filer sees it (verify with sysconfig -t) the scsi number assigned to the drive on the scsi bus will be the one on library.
OK. So you're saying that it will not cause a conflict if I daisy chain the filers together onto the same wire to the library drives. OK, that or 3-way NDMP are two possible options then. Thanks. -Alan
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