Messages in this thread | | | From | "Muthian S" <> | Subject | Remote SCSI Emulation | Date | Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:38:14 +0000 |
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Hi,
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.
However, for this to work, the OS on the second PC (which serves as the emulated scsi disk) should be capable of handling incoming SCSI requests and directing them to an appropriate software layer. Apparently, the CAM subsystem of FreeBSD has this capability. I was wondering if there is a similar mechanism in linux.
It would be really helpful if people have comments on whether such a setup is possible in linux, and if yes, are there specific adapters that are known to work in this fashion.
thanks, Muthian.
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