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* What is Target Mode in SATA terminology?
@ 2006-10-09 19:47 Sean Bruno
  2006-10-10  3:15 ` Jeremy Linton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Sean Bruno @ 2006-10-09 19:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-scsi

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.

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?

Sean


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* Re: What is Target Mode in SATA terminology?
  2006-10-09 19:47 What is Target Mode in SATA terminology? Sean Bruno
@ 2006-10-10  3:15 ` Jeremy Linton
  2006-10-10  3:58   ` Eric Moore
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Linton @ 2006-10-10  3:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Sean Bruno; +Cc: linux-scsi

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..

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* Re: What is Target Mode in SATA terminology?
  2006-10-10  3:15 ` Jeremy Linton
@ 2006-10-10  3:58   ` Eric Moore
  2006-10-10  4:46     ` Sean Bruno
  2006-10-10 14:26     ` Jeremy Linton
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Eric Moore @ 2006-10-10  3:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeremy Linton; +Cc: Sean Bruno, linux-scsi

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:15:20PM -0500, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> > 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..
> -

As far as I know, there are no scst target mode drivers for fusion.  Or are
there? I've not heard of anyone doing that so far.

The MPTSAS drivers you 'll find in the kernel tree are intiator mode only.
We have a driver called mptstm,  supplied to various customers. Its a
target mode driver. I can supply that per request.

Mike Christie, during OLS, mentioned to me that he could later add target
support, as his done for iscsi, qlogic, other vendors, later this year for
fusion. I forgot what the name of the project for that, but its not scst.

WRT, mptspi, Pls advise me on any instability issues.

Thanks,
Eric Moore






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* Re: What is Target Mode in SATA terminology?
  2006-10-10  3:58   ` Eric Moore
@ 2006-10-10  4:46     ` Sean Bruno
  2006-10-10 14:26     ` Jeremy Linton
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Sean Bruno @ 2006-10-10  4:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Moore; +Cc: Jeremy Linton, linux-scsi

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 21:58 -0600, Eric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:15:20PM -0500, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> > > 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..
> > -
> 
> As far as I know, there are no scst target mode drivers for fusion.  Or are
> there? I've not heard of anyone doing that so far.
> 
> The MPTSAS drivers you 'll find in the kernel tree are intiator mode only.
> We have a driver called mptstm,  supplied to various customers. Its a
> target mode driver. I can supply that per request.
> 
hmmm...Is that something that you would need an NDA for?

Sean




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* Re: What is Target Mode in SATA terminology?
  2006-10-10  3:58   ` Eric Moore
  2006-10-10  4:46     ` Sean Bruno
@ 2006-10-10 14:26     ` Jeremy Linton
  2006-12-13 18:09       ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Linton @ 2006-10-10 14:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Moore; +Cc: Sean Bruno, linux-scsi

On Monday 09 October 2006 22:58, Eric Moore wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:15:20PM -0500, Jeremy Linton wrote:
> > > 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..
> > -
>
> As far as I know, there are no scst target mode drivers for fusion.  Or are
> there? I've not heard of anyone doing that so far.
	One of the scst project members has a port of some LSI MPT target drivers to 
scst. They are here http://bj.soulinfo.com/%7Ehugang/scst/tgt/. I've been 
trying to get them working with a 53c1030 series LVD card and they don't get 
past exporting basic inquiry data. The contact for the drivers hasn't 
responded to any of my email's either, and the main project doesn't support 
them.

> The MPTSAS drivers you 'll find in the kernel tree are intiator mode only.
> We have a driver called mptstm,  supplied to various customers. Its a
> target mode driver. I can supply that per request.
	That would be excellent, if you have one newer than 1.00.13.



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* Re: What is Target Mode in SATA terminology?
  2006-10-10 14:26     ` Jeremy Linton
@ 2006-12-13 18:09       ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin @ 2006-12-13 18:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeremy Linton; +Cc: Eric Moore, Sean Bruno, linux-scsi, erikhabbinga

Jeremy Linton wrote:
> On Monday 09 October 2006 22:58, Eric Moore wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 10:15:20PM -0500, Jeremy Linton wrote:
>>
>>>>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..
>>>-
>>
>>As far as I know, there are no scst target mode drivers for fusion.  Or are
>>there? I've not heard of anyone doing that so far.
> 
> 	One of the scst project members has a port of some LSI MPT target drivers to 
> scst. They are here http://bj.soulinfo.com/%7Ehugang/scst/tgt/. I've been 
> trying to get them working with a 53c1030 series LVD card and they don't get 
> past exporting basic inquiry data. The contact for the drivers hasn't 
> responded to any of my email's either, and the main project doesn't support 
> them.

If you are still interested in SCSI target mode driver for fusion, you
can take a look at the new version of the Hu Gang's driver, developed by
Erik Habbinga, which is just made available from SCST SVN. You can get
anonymous access there using:

svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scst

Vlad

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