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From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wireless transport?
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:07:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050425010723.GA2734@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0504242111090.3098@poirot.grange>

On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:24:53PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> Hi
> 
> An idle curiousity - some time ago I asked myself what would be the next 
> transport - wireless? Then a few weeks ago I saw a "wireless hard-drive" 
> in a local computer store. Didn't look at it closely, but I assume it 
> comes with an ad-hoc win driver.
> 
> So, the question is - is it happening? Any standards appearing? Any 
> drivers being developed? If there's anything - it would be logical to 
> assume that it would implement a SCSI protocol, would it become a new 
> transport?

No, just use iSCSI on top of the network.

You still need a hardware transport for the actual disks on the back end,
but SATA or IDE could be used over iSCSI via iSCSI software target (export
a block device, or file system file as a LUN).

-- Patrick Mansfield

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-25  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-24 19:24 Wireless transport? Guennadi Liakhovetski
2005-04-24 22:55 ` Guy
2005-04-25  1:07 ` Patrick Mansfield [this message]
2005-04-25 20:08   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski

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