iscsi is scsi over ip. usb disk is scsi over usb. so just a different transport. u are rite. ;) ming On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 23:26 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Hello and thanks for the replies > > On Wed, 11 May 2005, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > The iSCSI protocol simply encapsulates the SCSI protocol into the > > TCP/IP protocol, and carries packets over IP networks. You can handle > ... > > On Wed, 11 May 2005, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > > Actually, this is property not of iSCSI target itself, but of any SCSI target. > > So, we implemented it as part of our SCSI target mid-level (SCST, > > http://scst.sourceforge.net), therefore any target driver working over it will > > automatically benefit from this feature. Unfortunately, currently available > > only target drivers for Qlogic 2x00 cards and for poor UNH iSCSI target (that > > works not too reliable and only with very specific initiators). The published > ... > > The above confirms basically my understanding apart from one "minor" > confusion - I thought, that parallel to hardware solutions pure software > implementations were possible / being developed, like a driver, that > implements a SCSI LDD API on one side, and forwards packets to an IP > stack, say, over an ethernet card - on the initiator side. And a counter > part on the target side. Similarly to the USB mass-storage and storage > gadget drivers? > > Thanks > Guennadi > --- > Guennadi Liakhovetski > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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