From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Linton Subject: Re: What is Target Mode in SATA terminology? Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:15:20 -0500 Message-ID: <200610092215.20396.jli@greshamstorage.com> References: <1160423279.27817.4.camel@home-desk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from austin.greshamstorage.com ([216.143.252.250]:59666 "EHLO austin.greshamstorage.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964921AbWJJDpZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Oct 2006 23:45:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1160423279.27817.4.camel@home-desk> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Sean Bruno Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Monday 09 October 2006 14:47, Sean Bruno wrote: > Just curious...with certain SCSI cards I could implement and play around > with the card in 'target mode' and hook it up to a separate PC and it > would appear as a SCSI disk. Kind of fun to play with. You should look at the scst http://scst.sourceforge.net/ project. That is where the target mode fun happens. If your serious get a qla22xx card, that appears to be the best supported by the project. > > Is there an equivalent in SATA / SAS land? If there is, is there a well > supported PCI-(E/X) board out there that I could play with? Well, the MPT driver for scst should support SAS. I can tell you though that the MPT driver isn't exactly stable for SPI..