Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261295AbVELCQw (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 22:16:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261304AbVELCQv (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 22:16:51 -0400 Received: from leviathan.ele.uri.edu ([131.128.51.64]:60304 "EHLO leviathan.ele.uri.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261286AbVELCQn (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 22:16:43 -0400 Subject: Re: several messages From: Ming Zhang Reply-To: mingz@ele.uri.edu To: Guennadi Liakhovetski Cc: FUJITA Tomonori , Vladislav Bolkhovitin , iet-dev , linux-scsi , Dmitry Yusupov , Sander , David Hollis , Maciej Soltysiak , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: References: <1416215015.20050504193114@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <1115236116.7761.19.camel@dhollis-lnx.sunera.com> <1104082357.20050504231722@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <1115305794.3071.5.camel@dhollis-lnx.sunera.com> <20050507150538.GA800@favonius> <4281C8A3.20804@vlnb.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ZpA+OTE/QB2aoEx65P/m" Organization: no-dole-available Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:16:16 -0400 Message-Id: <1115864176.5513.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2400 Lines: 71 --=-ZpA+OTE/QB2aoEx65P/m Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable iscsi is scsi over ip. usb disk is scsi over usb. so just a different transport. u are rite. ;) ming On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 23:26 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Hello and thanks for the replies >=20 > On Wed, 11 May 2005, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > The iSCSI protocol simply encapsulates the SCSI protocol into the > > TCP/IP protocol, and carries packets over IP networks. You can handle > ... >=20 > On Wed, 11 May 2005, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > > Actually, this is property not of iSCSI target itself, but of any SCSI = target. > > So, we implemented it as part of our SCSI target mid-level (SCST, > > http://scst.sourceforge.net), therefore any target driver working over = it will > > automatically benefit from this feature. Unfortunately, currently avail= able > > only target drivers for Qlogic 2x00 cards and for poor UNH iSCSI target= (that > > works not too reliable and only with very specific initiators). The pub= lished > ... >=20 > The above confirms basically my understanding apart from one "minor"=20 > confusion - I thought, that parallel to hardware solutions pure software=20 > implementations were possible / being developed, like a driver, that=20 > implements a SCSI LDD API on one side, and forwards packets to an IP=20 > stack, say, over an ethernet card - on the initiator side. And a counter=20 > part on the target side. Similarly to the USB mass-storage and storage=20 > gadget drivers? >=20 > Thanks > Guennadi > --- > Guennadi Liakhovetski >=20 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html --=-ZpA+OTE/QB2aoEx65P/m Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCgrxwSYbkL5BnVYoRAp2QAJ9AU6kEvA0GSSFDcScH78c2t62VFgCeKb5f qSxl1ZZ5ecF+Jpn9jZW73Y4= =2nN5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ZpA+OTE/QB2aoEx65P/m-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/