[ILUG] ATA over Ethernet

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, John Allman wrote:

> That's why. I'm looking to essentially build a slave box as a home 
> made external disk cage instead of buying a very expensive fibre 
> channel or scsi raid box.

You can get fairly cheap RAID boxes. Asian companies have been 
working on making RAID box controllers commodity products, and there 
are a lot of vendors offering fairly reasonably priced RAID boxes, 
with choices of IDE, SATA or SCSI for drive interfaces and FC or SCSI 
for the box<->host interface.

> I'm not intending for the slave machine to be available on the 
> network - i'd like to have it directly connected to the server.

I'm confused. If you go with multiple general purpose computers, why 
would you use AoE rather than NFS?

regards,
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