Re: (iSCSI) Question

[bberg@bswd.com (Brian A. Berg)]

You can also check out the presentations made during an IP Storage
Tutorial at last week's FCTC conference in San Jose.  Of particular
note are ones I have posted at

  http://www.bswd.com/cornucop.htm#fctciscsi

Look at Ahmad Zamer's presentation starting at Slide 16, as well as
John Hufferd's excellent tutorial.
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> (iSCSI added to subject header..)
>
> SCSI is a layered protocol.  In iSCSI, TCP is being used as
> the "SCSI transport" within the SCSI protocol hierarchy.
>
> The slides below contain a good overview..
>   (see pages 6 and 11)
> http://WWW.ECE.CMU.EDU/~ips/documents/haagens.08.02.2000.pdf
>
> You may also want to lookup the SAM-2 documents on
> http://www.t10.org/drafts.htm to get a feel for the SCSI
> architecture in general.
>
> -Sandeep
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I am doing a research project at Arizona State University on SCSI and
> > iSCSI. I was going through both the protocols. I have a crazy question.
> > iSCSI = SCSI/(TCP/IP). But SCSI is a reliable protocol so is TCP. so can't
> > we just try to send SCSI packets on IP or SCSI/UDP. Any & All comments are
> > welcome.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Shesha Bhushan S
> > Research Assistant
> > Arizona State University