From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:45:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:45:26 -0400 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:64145 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:45:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:49:00 +0200 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: Jesse Pollard Cc: eli.carter@inet.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Idle curiosity: Acting as a SCSI target Message-ID: <20020807224900.GG1537@werewolf.able.es> References: <200208072151.QAA75961@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <200208072151.QAA75961@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>; from pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil on Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 23:51:05 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.3.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2002.08.07 Jesse Pollard wrote: >Eli Carter : >> >> Based on a conversation I had recently, my curiosity got piqued... >> >> I'm not really sure how to query google on this, and didn't turn up what >> I was looking for because of that, so here's the random question: >> >> Is there a way to make a Linux machine with a scsi controller act like a >> scsi device (is the correct term 'target'?) (such as a disk) using a >> local block device as storage? Do not know about the software, but hardware allows it. Old mac laptops were pluggable that way and one could see the other one disk. It was not a symmetric connection, one laptop acted as disk, but worked... -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.0 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.4.20-pre1-jam1 (gcc 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-0.2mdk))