Test system with multiple SCSI drives

[Kilocomp]

Alright this is semi OT, since it is dealing with a multi OS setup question with possibly a hardware solution. I am currently building/designing a test network. For this test network I have several servers and workstations. On the workstations they will have IDE drives plus the Romtec Trios hard drive selector. With the selector I will be able to have different test configuration I can bring up without having additional computer or having to reload the system all the time. I want to be able to have this same option for the servers I will have, but they will be running SCSI drives. I possible could setup a hotswap system, but that seems to be to expensive just to do this. I would like to have the drives isolated from each other as one is being used (like Trios selector does), but it is not a requirement. Possibly a nice software solution exits to allow me to do this? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Nick

 

[Need4Speed]

why not change the scsi id of the device from which you want to boot? thats what i have done in the past. Four scsi drives (ID0 to ID4) each with a different OS. When i wanted to run LINUX, i would reboot, change the boot ID in the SCSI bios and voila! all there is to it.