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



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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Andre Hedrick [mailto:andre@linux-ide.org] 
    Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 1:17 PM
    To: Eddy Quicksall
    Cc: Russell Lewis; ips@ece.cmu.edu
    Subject: RE: Are there any coming iSCSI HBAs? Preferably at 100Mb speed?
    
    
    Eddy,
    
    Are you suggesting drives with RJ45 connections as their interface?
    
    
    On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Eddy Quicksall wrote:
    
    > How about an iSCSI disk though? Are any of those available or on the
    drawing
    > board?
    > 
    > Eddy
    > 
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Russell Lewis [mailto:russelll@us.ibm.com] 
    > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 5:50 PM
    > To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
    > Subject: 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?
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > 
    
    Andre Hedrick
    LAD Storage Consulting Group
    


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