On 11/5/10 11:51 AM, Richard wrote:
How hard is it to fake out a SCSI tape drive interface
with an
FPGA/controller so that the tape data can be streamed from a file on
another system?
It should be fairly simple to modify the SCSI target disk mode code
to pretend it's a SCSI tape.
"SCSI target disk mode code" um.... are you talking about a code value
in the SCSI command stream or are you referring to some piece of
source code?
If the latter, which source are you talking about?
SCSI target mode implementations meaning OS device drivers that serve
SCSI targets to client machines, via various transports. Nearly all
modern OSs have such functionality now. In one implementation I've
used, you can define a (possibly large) file, configure the driver to
point at it, and have another computer connected via a SCSI bus
(configured with a different initiator address of course) see that file
as if it were a physical disk drive.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL