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

["Julian Satran" <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com>]

iboot will work with most unixes and
was tested under windows. however it is not a supported product. Making
it "transparent" to BIOS can be achieved with NIC software (not
necesarily a HBA) or any otherway loaded BIOS extensions. Julo

Russell Lewis/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS
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Subject	Re: Are there any coming iSCSI HBAs?  Preferably at 100Mb speed?

Of course.  What (nearly) everybody seems to be missing is that I'm
looking
to turn legacy computers into diskless workstations.  Thus, software
initiators don't help.

Boot-time software initiators, like iBoot or PXE, have their place, but
they are limited in the OSes that they support.  I continue to hope
that
(someday) I'll have affordable iSCSI HBAs that look to the BIOS - and to
any booting operating system - as nothing more than a plain-old parallel
SCSI adapter.

Perhaps that is a way off, at least before it is a commodity product.





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at 100Mbs you could definitly use software and a plain NIC. You won't feel
iSCSI :-)

Julo

                    
                     
                     
          
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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?