From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Mansfield Subject: Re: Wireless transport? Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:07:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20050425010723.GA2734@us.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.132]:18364 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262392AbVDYBHr (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:07:47 -0400 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e34.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j3P17keE512504 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 21:07:46 -0400 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id j3P17kpf260384 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:07:46 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j3P17jPl017428 for ; Sun, 24 Apr 2005 19:07:45 -0600 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Guennadi Liakhovetski Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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