Hello Bill,
Good to hear from you again. I see you are no longer with the CSS group that
used to be in Merrimack.
> Hi Bill, yes we did interact during the Dec Hippi installation phase
> here. I agree that if SCSI must run over WAN's then ST alone won't be
> adequate as a carrier and IP needs looking at. But I believe stSCSI (or
> "SST" as SCSI-over-ST is normally written) is more advanced in the
> standards and implementation process than ipSCSI.
Yes. I am the editor of the SST standard. Most of the work on the standard at
this time
is editorial, not technical. We expect to be able to forward the standard for
public review
this fall.
> So far, under Linux, file systems haven't had their SCSI layer linked up
> to SST; however, this has been done for file systems on True64, Solaris
> and Irix platforms, for both GSN and GigE I believe. The leader in this
> latter work is Genroco - you can contact Don Woelz <don@xxxxxxxxxxx> or
> Mike Barratt <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> about this. SGI and Compaq have also
> worked on it and I believe IBM may be active too. Genroco may get into
> Linux SST some time this year (ask Don), but SGI isn't doing it so far
> and at CERN we haven't yet committed to it, as Pekka must do the OS
> Bypass first.
We have indeed targeted Linux (and NT) for SST. Your time estimate is as good
as I can do...later this year.
> > Is there a mailing list for stSCSI?
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