On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Monday 14 July 2003 13:31, Jon Nelson wrote: > > To which I replied (summarized): iSCSI has nothing to do with > > hardware. and I proceeded to yammer about how iSCSI is a protocol > > that essentially provides a block device over ethernet. My choice of > > the word "nothing" is wrong. What I meant to say is that the actual > > storage mechanism *underneath* the iSCSI provider is irrelevant, and > > that *no*, a user doesn't need to go out and acquire (typically) > > expensive hardware that speaks iSCSI, the user could buy cheap IDE > > drives and use his or her cheap, general-purpose machine running > > Linux to provide the iSCSI connectivity. > > You do however need to have a iSCSI target software, which last time i > checked, there were no free iSCSI target projects, and those that > aren't free aren't exactly cheap either. Okapi is about the cheapest, > and it's somewhere in $400/600 per target IIRC. Others are up to 10K > per target.
Link #4 from google, searching for 'iSCSI'. http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/ also: googlin' for 'iscsi linux' nets 3-4 projects, including ones from Cisco, IBM and Intel. -- No more monkey ducks, jumping on the bed! Jon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C and Python Code Gardener ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
