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From: "Serge" <serge@baby.vimcom.msk.ru>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Solaris, SCSI disk
Date: 19 Jun 1997 06:06:31 GMT
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Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@portsoft.com> wrote in article
<01bc7c27$b57f0320$6601a8c0@teds.portsoft.com>...
> 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.

Sure. If two boxes are 100 meters on from another though...
Thank for reply. Problem solved with dd and "c" slice. No byte order
problems occured.

> > 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 :-).