[rescue] Re: San Antonio, TX area rescue

[Eric Dittman]

> > With the price of drives constantly dropping, I'm hesitant to
> > buy an big proprietary storage unit.
> 
> Which part of this system are you refering to?  I was under the
> impression that the whole shibang would talk to a standard machine, and
> that all the drives were standard.  I guess I might question using
> proprietary controllers, but then, if you bought 3, why not consolidate
> the drives and save the extra controllers for spares.

I was thinking of the controllers.

> > I'm surprised there's not an open source storage controller
> > project to turn a Linux or *BSD system into one.
> 
> Yeah, that would be kinda cool.  Isn't that kinda what iSCSI does,
> except over ethernet or fddi rather than over physical scsi cabling?

I've not kept up on iSCSI.
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