Re: Remote SCSI Emulation

From: Wes Felter
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 18:02:32 EST


On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:38:14 +0000, Muthian S wrote:

> Certain SCSI adapters like the Adaptec AHA 29160 are reportedly capable of
> acting as a target and can receive SCSI commands from initiators. Such an
> adapter can be used to facilitate remote SCSI emulation by a PC.
> For instance, if two PCs have the adapter, the two adapters can be
> directly connected by a SCSI bus and the second PC can in effect serve as
> an "emulated SCSI disk". Such a setup is extremely helpful in various
> scenarios.

Search the archives/Web for "SCSI target", "LinuxDisk", etc. There are
plenty of half-finished implementations of this.

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Wes Felter - wesley@xxxxxxxxxx - http://felter.org/wesley/


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