https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/connecting-2-servers-to-my-c2300/m-p/3053192#M9517 You can do this but you have to play by the rules. I suspect what is happening is that the controller's on both hosts are set to the default 7. You must reset one to 6 (or at least not 7 and 6 is the next highest priority device on a bus so it's the normal choice). The bus should terminate on the controllers themselves -- so termination must be enabled on both controllers.<BR /> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:00:45 GMT A. Clay Stephenson 2003-08-23T20:00:45Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/connecting-2-servers-to-my-c2300/m-p/3053189#M9514 I have connected my C2300 to 2 servers (for manual fail over scenario) and when I bring up the second server I get a hardware fault and the system never boots. It seems odd to me that I would get a hardware fault on System B when all the system is doing is booting up. I have configured all the disks on system A and everything works fine. System B won't even be used unless System A completely dies. It seems like I was able to do this on the older JBOD's. Is the C2300 too smart for this? Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:53:20 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/connecting-2-servers-to-my-c2300/m-p/3053189#M9514 Glenn S. Davidson 2003-08-20T18:53:20Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/connecting-2-servers-to-my-c2300/m-p/3053190#M9515 OK this is a DS2300 and I found what looks like the answer to my question but I still can't explain the fault light on the other server and it not booting. Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:45:54 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/connecting-2-servers-to-my-c2300/m-p/3053190#M9515 Glenn S. Davidson 2003-08-20T21:45:54Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/connecting-2-servers-to-my-c2300/m-p/3053191#M9516 Glenn,<BR />please check again if this is DS2300 (LVD JBOD with 15 disks max) or C2300 (old Nike disk array). Which servers are you trying to connect? What's topology? Which OS?<BR />Eugeny Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:00:44 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/connecting-2-servers-to-my-c2300/m-p/3053191#M9516 Eugeny Brychkov 2003-08-23T10:00:44Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/connecting-2-servers-to-my-c2300/m-p/3053192#M9517 You can do this but you have to play by the rules. I suspect what is happening is that the controller's on both hosts are set to the default 7. You must reset one to 6 (or at least not 7 and 6 is the next highest priority device on a bus so it's the normal choice). The bus should terminate on the controllers themselves -- so termination must be enabled on both controllers.<BR /> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:00:45 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk-enclosures/connecting-2-servers-to-my-c2300/m-p/3053192#M9517 A. Clay Stephenson 2003-08-23T20:00:45Z