You cannot have more than one filer attached to the same SCSI chain.
What you can do is have one drive attached to one filer and another drive attached to another filer, as long as you can break the SCSI bus at the library side. Most libraries with more than 2 drives can do this.
You will see multiple in/out connections. That is what it is for.
--tmac
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-----Original Message----- From: Alan Sparks [mailto:asparks@doublesparks.net] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:00 AM To: Lance R Bailey Cc: Toasters List Subject: Re: Changing Netapp SCSI target ID
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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