Wireless transport?

Wireless transport?

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

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?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski

RE: Wireless transport?

[Guy]

My guess is the thing is a SAMBA server or similar.

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> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks
> Guennadi
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Re: Wireless transport?

[Patrick Mansfield]

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

RE: Wireless transport?

[Guennadi Liakhovetski]

Thanks for the replies

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Guy wrote:

> My guess is the thing is a SAMBA server or similar.

Yeah, logical:-) Didn't think about that.

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005, Patrick Mansfield wrote:

> No, just use iSCSI on top of the network.

Sure, that'd be doable. Just have no idea - isn't it too much overhead? 
Say, over bluetooth, IP is already pretty high on the stack. OTOH, one 
could, possibly, take advantage of some features natively present in lower 
wireless levels, that don't get exported over IP?

Disclaimer: I am quite ignorant about wireless as well as iSCSI internals, 
so, feel free to ignore me, if I am talking nonsense, however, would be 
grateful for any education:-)

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski