USB --> SCSI

[Paul Koning]

> On Mar 30, 2015, at 1:23 PM, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
> 
> At 11:47 AM 3/27/2015, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 27 March 2015 at 17:36, Bob Brown <bbrown at harpercollege.edu> wrote:
>>> Does anyone know if a usb --> scsi adapter might allow me to connect an hp 9-track tape drive (7980s) to a computer running windows-7?
> 
> Hasn't someone somewhere created an iSCSI stack that would let 
> an old PC run Linux and use an old SCSI card (of appropriate
> interface) to talk to old hardware, but speak to the 
> new PC and new software over the network?

I think iSCSI target support is now a standard Linux iSCSI feature.  If not standard, at least reasonably mainstream.  I haven’t tried it, but I see plenty of references to it on the Linux iSCSI mailing list.

	paul