> Didn't you *just say* that "iSCSI is currently only spoken to rare and > expensive hardware". Are IDE drives "rare" and "expensive"?
No, but using even a $350 PC to talk to a $200 drive makes it a $550 drive. > Seriously. > If you are building a storage system for networked storage, > you already > have: > > - a computer > - some drives > - networking > > Let's see. To add iSCSI to the mix you need: > > - a compiler - a dedicated computer to be the iSCSI target > - (2) Linux boxes with the appropriate software > - a scsi block device (possibly emulated scsi via ide-scsi) > This is the "actual" storage. Only one machine need actual storage. Um, EVERYONE needs to talk iSCSI to it. The local system won't, right? It'll talk IDE. > To use these modules you need to have 2 machines running linux 2.4.x > connected together via some TCP/IP network. (using 1 machine and > running both the target and client on localhost probably works but is > untested). > > 1 machine should have a SCSI adapter installed with a SCSI > device (disk) > preferably using SCSI Id 0. This machine is henceforth referred to as > the "target" machine. The other machine is henceforth reffered to as > the "client" machine. > > *DO NOT USE A TARGET SCSI DEVICE CONTAINING IMPORTANT DATA* > You have been warned. > " Note that this example is for enabling ONE machine -- the client -- to access the disk. Two clients means "two clients plus one target" -- which is one more machine than otherwise needed. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
