Re: ata over ethernet question

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2005-05-04 at 18:31, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> Would it be possible to use tha AOE driver to
> attach one ATA drive in a host over ethernet to another
> host ? Or is it support for specific hardware devices only?

It talks ATA command blocks but if you write an ATA command block parser
you can write yourself a remote device stack and the protocol is very
simple. For block storage NBD is probably simpler and more efficient but
AoE might be interesting for accessing embedded microcontrollers and the
like because you don't need a TCP/IP stack.

Alan

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