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#! rnews 1811 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Portland Software Lines: 27 Message-ID: <01bc7c27$b57f0320$6601a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> References: <01bc7be4$e3a91440$b41713ac@sh.uniinc.msk.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43121 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 >