12 Jun
2009
12 Jun
'09
4:21 a.m.
On Jun 11, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
That's just frightening. ATA is ugly enough when it *isn't* being
tunneled.
> iSCSI
makes up (in a clumsy way) for a lack of a "first class
> citizen"
Eh. (and this is WAY OT) iSCSI is kinda
interesting; I've been
working with it quite a bit lately.
Have you seen ATAoE? It is, as the name implies, ATA over Ethernet.
Unlike the 300-page mail-order catalogue of the iSCSI spec, the ATAoE
spec is eight pages, mostly taken up with diagrams showing an ATA
packet
wrapped inside an Ethernet frame. I toyed briefly with the idea of writing an ATAoE
target for the
PDP11.
Not sure if I could port it to OS/2, though, or make it talk to TK50s.
Now ok, I have to admit I think that'd be kinda fun.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL