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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Running 2 Drives simultaneously? Post 302159794 by Infidel on Friday 18th of January 2008 04:05:06 PM
Old 01-18-2008
Running 2 Drives simultaneously?
So I have yet another query which requires the genius of the users on Unix.com. Having asked around at my work (Tech company) No one can really answer my question thoroughly.

My goal is to get 2 Hard drives running at the same time and allow me to switch between working on one to the other. However, the catch is that both the drives have different operating systems. 1 Windows XP, 1 Linux. The theory to me seems virtually impossible but I'm hoping there is a way for it to work. The drives would not be used to share info between them, merely running at the same time. My reason for doing this is because I am a working man and do not want to purchase a separate setup to be able to perform this. Now if this just a hopeless wish I understand and appreciate everyone's time for looking into it however briefly. Thanks to all.
 

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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86

sbp

SBP(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    SBP(4)

NAME

     sbp -- Serial Bus Protocol 2 (SBP-2) Mass Storage Devices driver

SYNOPSIS

     kldload firewire
     kldload cam
     kldload sbp

     or

     device sbp
     device firewire
     device scbus
     device da
     device cd
     device pass

DESCRIPTION

     The sbp driver provides support for SBP-2 devices that attach to the FireWire (IEEE 1394) port.  It should work with SBP-2 devices which the
     CAM layer supports, for example, HDDs, CDROM drives and DVD drives.

     Some users familiar with umass(4) might wonder why the device is not detached at the CAM layer when the device is unplugged.  It is detached
     only if the device has not been plugged again during several bus resets.  This is for preventing to detach an active file system even when
     the device cannot be probed correctly for some reason after a bus reset or when the device is temporary disconnected because the user changes
     the bus topology.	If you want to force to detach the device, run ``fwcontrol -r'' several times or set hw.firewire.hold_count=0 by
     sysctl(1).

     Some (broken) HDDs do not work well with tagged queuing.  If you have problems with such drives, try ``camcontrol [device id] tags -N 1'' to
     disable tagged queuing.

SEE ALSO

     cam(4), firewire(4), camcontrol(8), fwcontrol(8), kldload(8), sysctl(8)

AUTHORS

     The sbp driver was written by Katsushi Kobayashi and Hidetoshi Shimokawa.

     This manual page was written by Katsushi Kobayashi.

BSD
								   May 20, 2002 							       BSD
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