linux1394-user: RE: Emulating an sbp2 drive with linux

From: Bruce Carter <bruce.carter_at_oracle.com>
Date: Sat 12 Jun 2004 - 22:00:24 CEST
Message-ID: <PDENIGKKGMENDEJCMHJPMENPDJAA.bruce.carter@oracle.com>

Look like

http://oss.oracle.com/projects/endpoint/

Might be what you are looking for.

Regards

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: linux1394-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:linux1394-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Brad
Campbell
Sent: 12 June 2004 12:21
To: linux1394-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Emulating an sbp2 drive with linux

G'day all,

First post to the list, only just subscribed but I have googled around and
not turned anything up.

Is it practical/possible to use a linux box with a firewire card to emulate
an sbp2 drive?

I was thinking something along the lines of a cheapo box with a couple of
terrabyte raid array that
can just be plugged into any machine with a firewire port and pretend it's a
several terrabyte drive.

If it's possible, I'm happy to have a go at knocking something up, but I
guess I thought I'd ask the
experts before I jumped in headlong.

While I'm here, I have 2 machines with VIA Firewire PCI cards in them, one
has 2.4.26 and another
has 2.6.5. Both of them run external sbp2 drives quite well if I enable
serialize_io, otherwise they
bum out with SCSI errors, aborted commands and retries. I get a good 18MB/s
to and from the external
drives either with serialize_io or without, it makes no difference.
I'm happy with that.

Regards,
Brad

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