At 10:57 23.02.00 +0000, Lloyd Wood wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Costa Sapuntzakis wrote:
>
> > Announcement of IP Storage (IPS) proposed working group
> > -------------------------------------------------------
>
> > * A standard, interoperable, high-performance, reliable transport
> > protocol for SCSI over IP is needed.
>
>I have one question here.
>
>Why?
Because 100 m Cat5 cabling is cheaper than 5 m of current SCSI cabling?
My personal worry is the set of failure modes that can occur when someone
uses Mobile-IP to move his PC to his GSM phone in his car, while the disk
remains at the office, and similar absurdities that people *will* try to do.
BTW, SCSI is used for lots more things than storage - my favourite
application was the one that used SCSI to control a laser rangefinder....
Harald
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