Re: shared SCSI devices

Lars Marowsky-Bree <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:18:20 +0200

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On 2002-07-09T11:38:42,
   Volker Pense <[email protected]> said:

> Hi,
> has anyone a list which SCSI Adapters allow a shared logical Volume under 
> Linux for HA Takeover. For Example IBM ServeRAID does not.

Any which do not use write-caching; best to disable controller caching
completely.

The Adaptec or ICP Vortex Cluster controllers come to mind.

For most scenarios, Fibre-Channel setups are desireable, because they have
much better electrical properties.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-BrÃ©e <[email protected]>

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