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

[Russell Lewis <russelll@us.ibm.com>]

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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  |       To:       Russell Lewis/Tucson/IBM@IBMUS                                                                               |
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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?