> Folks, I was at SGI when they did this stuff and I've used it personally
> quite a bit. It's very cool. I think this is definitely worth a look
> and I'll be playing around with it.
>
> One thing that I've dreamed about for a while is getting the disk drive
> vendors to put STP down in the drives. Then we throw out the SCSI/IDE
> cables and use RJ45 connectors to talk to both the network and the disks.
> Think hot plug. Cool, no?
SCSI over STP is already specified. Infact, SGI and Genroco did
a prototype demo at CERN last October with SCSI over STP running out of
Origin2000 with GSN connecting through a Genroco bridge to a fibre
channel raid array running pure SCSI. That same bridge has blades
for GbE also.
:a
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