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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Solaris, SCSI disk
Date: 18 Jun 1997 20:13:47 GMT
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I have seen CDW advertising 4 port 100Mbt (not ten, one hundred) hubs for
about $250.  At this price it would be cheaper and faster to NFS mount the
filesystems using dedicated network cards in the machines than to try to
share a SCSI disk over a slower 10Mbt SCSI connection.

Ted

Serge <serge@baby.vimcom.msk.ru> wrote in article
<01bc7be4$e3a91440$b41713ac@sh.uniinc.msk.ru>...
> I have two boxes - Solaris 2.5.1/Sparc and FreeBSD. Are there any way
> to read/write data from the same SCSI disk ? I mean to put data to disk
> on one box, then read it on another (the resulting file must be identical
> to original :-).
> 
> Unfortunately Solaris and FreeBSD can't mount ufs file systems, made by
> another.
> Probably it's possible to write data with dd then on another box read
> it the same way. But for now i'm not sure that there are no such problem
> as bit-order. Another trouble that Solaris and FreeBSD ever can't
> understand drive partiotioning tables from another system and i can't
find
> appropriate device in Solaris to access "raw" disk without partitions.
> 
> Any suggestions ? TIA
> 
> --- Sergey
>