[Sunhelp] Question about SunPCi

[James Lockwood]

On Sun, 7 May 2000, Tony Alberti wrote:

> I am looking at purchasing an Ultra 10 w/ SunPCi and a SCSI card.  Was
> wondering if external SCSI devices (Scanner / DAT autoloader) could be
> utalized by both Solaris and Windows, or Solaris only if connected
> through the SCSI PCI card.  I am trying to avoid a parallel or USB
> scanner connected directly to the SunPCi card.  Currently the devices
> work both on a PC and SPARC 10 via SCSI AB switch.  I was hoping to gain
> some space back on my now caving in desk. 

There is currently no provision for sharing SCSI devices at a low level.
This wouldn't be hard for Sun to implement (just a pair of drivers to talk
uscsi on the SPARC side and ASPI on the PC side) but I suspect the demand
is small.  Any ASPI gurus in the house?

-James