Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:33:36 +0200 From: Rob Schofield <schofiel@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980428113336.007a1470@mail.xs4all.nl>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
> >
> > Could one, in theory, implement a driver that talks TCP/IP over SCSI?
> >
> > Philipp
> >
> yes you could (it's been discussed a lot)
> but it's not really a good match and you'd
^^^^^^^^^^
Surely this is: Ethernet is a bursty, bandwidth hogger with short
"connection" times, unsuited to the SCSI model of bus operation? You need
to read the RFC for TCP/IP over SCSI transport, which covers this.
> have to have an adapter that supports 'target mode' correctly.
NO, sorry, but the adaptors usually *do*, as it's built into the
chipsets (otherwise how would your SCSI disks work as targets? ;^). As
usual, it's the **host software** that doesn't. Even then, if you are using
the ASPI generalisation layer provided/sold by Adaptec, a lot of what you
need for target mode is in there.
Don't generalise, please.
Rob Schofield
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