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

[Dave McGuire]

On June 30, 2024 11:20:44 AM Doug McIntyre via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 12:50:49PM +0200, Patrik Schindler via rescue wrote:
> ...
>> 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.
>>
>> https://scst.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> I feel this might provide adequate performance for typical servers or workstations from back-in-the-day.
> ...
>
> 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.

   Heh, then IBM packaged it as the DS6800. ;)

                 -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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