USB --> SCSI

[Paul Koning]

> On Mar 31, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Dave G4UGM <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Paul
>> Koning
>> Sent: 31 March 2015 21:40
>> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>> Subject: Re: USB --> SCSI
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 31, 2015, at 4:00 PM, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> At 01:14 PM 3/30/2015, Paul Koning wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Are they running old tape devices on it?
>> 
>> Tape?  Not that I know of.  In principle iSCSI can handle tape, but I don’t
>> know if it’s been done at all, never mind in Linux.
>> 
>> 	paul
>> 
> 
> 
> How would you connect old tapes to iSCSI? There are modern tapes with Fibre SCSI interfaces but would you actually connect the thing up....
> 
> Dave

If you have an iSCSI target on an OS that takes the SCSI commands and converts them to device I/O calls for that OS, it “should” just work.  That’s no different from a storage device that speaks iSCSI out the front and has ATA (or SATA) disks.

	paul