On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 09:24:53PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > Hi > > An idle curiousity - some time ago I asked myself what would be the next > transport - wireless? Then a few weeks ago I saw a "wireless hard-drive" > in a local computer store. Didn't look at it closely, but I assume it > comes with an ad-hoc win driver. > > So, the question is - is it happening? Any standards appearing? Any > drivers being developed? If there's anything - it would be logical to > assume that it would implement a SCSI protocol, would it become a new > transport? No, just use iSCSI on top of the network. You still need a hardware transport for the actual disks on the back end, but SATA or IDE could be used over iSCSI via iSCSI software target (export a block device, or file system file as a LUN). -- Patrick Mansfield - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
