On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:22:17AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/19/2005 11:10:22 AM: > > > > What is 'multiple initiators' used for in the real world? > > I asked this same question and got an answer off list: Somebody said their > SAN hardware used multiple initiators. I would try to check the archives > for you, but this thread is becoming more of a rope. > > Multiple initiators means multiple sources on the bus issuing I/O > instructions to the drives. In theory you can have two computers on the > same SCSI bus issuing I/O requests to the same drive, or to anything else > on the bus, but I've never seen this implemented. Others have noted this > feature as being a big deal, so somebody is benefiting from it.
It's a big deal for Oracle clustering, which relies on shared drives. Of course most people doing Oracle clustering are probably using a SAN and not raw SCSI... -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give your computer some brain candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
