Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:03:07 -0800 | From | Aman Singla <> | Subject | Re: Scheduled Transfer Protocol on Linux |
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> Folks, I was at SGI when they did this stuff and I've used it personally > quite a bit. It's very cool. I think this is definitely worth a look > and I'll be playing around with it. > > One thing that I've dreamed about for a while is getting the disk drive > vendors to put STP down in the drives. Then we throw out the SCSI/IDE > cables and use RJ45 connectors to talk to both the network and the disks. > Think hot plug. Cool, no?
SCSI over STP is already specified. Infact, SGI and Genroco did a prototype demo at CERN last October with SCSI over STP running out of Origin2000 with GSN connecting through a Genroco bridge to a fibre channel raid array running pure SCSI. That same bridge has blades for GbE also.
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