Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:55:27 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: Fake SCSI devices |
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Florian Weimer wrote: > > Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no> writes:
> In fact, I want to avoid a similar solution: MIDI over SCSI. There are > some MIDI samplers which can transmit samples over the SCSI bus using a > special, somewhat proprietary protocol. Unfortunately, with at least one > vendor, MIDI over SCSI transfers are much slower than direct disk access > (20 K/sec vs. 200 K/sec or more). My idea is to provide a virtual hard > disk on the SCSI bus which the sampler can access. I hope that with > a virtual disk, proper (or almost proper) synchronization is easier to > implement than with a real disk.
Faking a disk has been discussed before. I believe the purpose was to use the linux box as a raid controller, providing big fast RAID for machines with unknown os capable of doing scsi. You may want to find and talk to those people.
Helge Hafting
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