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    RE: Are there any coming iSCSI HBAs? Preferably at 100Mb speed?



    
    
    
    
    An HBA of the sort I'm envisioning wouldn't need iSCSI Boot compliance.  I
    was thinking more along the lines of a card where you preconfigure the IP
    address and iSCSI parameters and burn it onto flash memory.
    
    I know that $50-$100 is the commodity price range...that's exactly what I'm
    looking for.  I know that it's too early to really expect that, but
    somebody like NetGear could make a lot of money...
    
    I just wonder if somebody could take fairly standard 10/100 Ethernet
    hardware, slap on a little embedded processor, some memory, and some
    EEPROM, and then run an open source initiator.  For development simplicity,
    maybe just run embedded Linux on the little processor.
    
    
    
    
    
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    Hmmm....I am reviewing iSCSI HBAs that look like SCSI adapters to the
    system
    right now.  They are 10/100/1000, and cost in excess of $500.00.  I
    seriously doubt there will be a card like you describe for economic
    reasons.
    
    The $50-$100 price range is a commodity price range.  The development costs
    are going to be prohibitive for an iSCSI HBA at that low speed, especially
    when you can simply add a second NIC on a different subnet for iSCSI
    traffic
    for about that price.  That's not even addressing the issue of a 100Mb
    card.
    Most people will not put up with 10MB/sec max disk transfer rates.
    
    Beyond that, I do not believe that the iSCSI boot specification is
    completed
    as of yet.  As far as I know you cannot boot from an iSCSI device at this
    time.  If that's not right, someone please correct me.
    
    Honestly, you would be better off using a PXE network boot.
    
    Steven
    
    Steven J. Schuchart Jr.
    Associate Technology Editor
    Servers and Storage Technology
    Network Computing Magazine
    Email:  sschuchart@nwc.com
    "Information is the currency of democracy." - Thomas Jefferson
    
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu [mailto:owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of
    Russell Lewis
    Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 11:25 AM
    To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
    Subject: Are there any coming iSCSI HBAs? Preferably at 100Mb speed?
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Does anybody know of any current or coming iSCSI HBAs which show up (to the
    BIOS) as ordinary SCSI adapters?  I'd like to drop such an HBA into a
    legacy computer and run a totally diskless workstation at home.
    
    However, since it will be a home computer, I'm willing to operate at 100Mb
    speed - I'm willing to eat the performance hit.  It seems to me that
    somebody could make an iSCSI HBA with a 100Mb interface and make it
    affordable for the home user (say, $50-$100).  Anybody know of such plans?
    
    
    
    
    
    


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