15 Nov
2007
15 Nov
'07
10:02 p.m.
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 15:30 -0600, Doc Shipley wrote:
Pete Turnbull wrote:
Take a look at AoE - ATA over Ethernet. The spec for it is eight pages
long, and is basically describing an ATA packet wrapped in an Ethernet
frame.
Hm. Can you get at raw Ethernet frames with a DEQNA or DELQA card?
Looks like RT-11 disk drivers are nice and simple...
Gordon
On 15/11/2007 15:49, Doc Shipley wrote:
Both of which could be described as "solutions looking for a problem"....
I get to work with a lot of iSCSI storage. I've grown to loathe it,
mostly because it's usually either not suited to the need, or just plain
misconfigured. Or both. Dave McGuire wrote:
There was an IP over SCSI project for Linux
awhile back. Cheap[er]
FC pretty much killed it, I think.
This can get quite amusing, because not only is there a standard for IP
over SCSI, there's one for SCSI over IP.