[rescue] SCSI Replacements (was: IDE SSDs? I never knew...)

[Doug McIntyre]

On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 12:50:49PM +0200, Patrik Schindler via rescue wrote:
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> I was considering an older release of SCST on Linux for a while, to build an external storage-server (HP Microservers come to mind) connected via parallel SCSI cable to the machine in question.
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> https://scst.sourceforge.net/
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> I feel this might provide adequate performance for typical servers or workstations from back-in-the-day.
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Oh man, that takes me back.

I was looking into repairing some commercial FC storage array once,
and discovered that the controller was embedded linux on a card
running that project for it to be the FC Target.  Had to reverse
engineer the mini-DIN serial port and all to get to the logs and start
looking to see if it was bad disks, or something else.

I never could get that embedded linux card stable ever though, kept rebooting
all the time due to different things each time. A bad thing to happen when
it was running as the SCSI FC Target. Some storage vendor that faded into
obvlivion for bad hardware most likely.