[ale] Linux as a SCSI target.

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Mar 23 09:25:33 EDT 2009


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Byron Jeff <byronjeff at clayton.edu> wrote:
> In the course of rebuilding my music making setup I purchased a ESI-32
> sampler. I can't believe they used to go for $1500 new. The sampler has one
> tremendous problem: no samples. It comes with a floppy (seriously?!) and a
> Centronics 50 pin SCSI interface.
>
> I rummaged around in the basement tech piles and located a double handful
> of PCI SCSI cards. But apparently the SCSI drives and CDROMS were pitched
> in the last tech recycling drive. Of course EBay has more drives. But
> another thought came to mind: using a Linux box as a SCSI bridge to IDE
> equipment.
>
> Google led me to STGT: http://stgt.berlios.de/ and SCST:
> http://scst.sourceforge.net projects. But either I'm not reading their docs
> right or clarity on what I'm trying to do eludes me.
>
> I'd like to drop a SCSI adapter into a Linux box along with an IDE hard
> disk and CDROM. I then want to connect the Linux box to the sampler.
> Finally I want to set up the Linux box so that it serves the IDE hard disk
> and CDROM drives to the sampler as SCSI devices.
>
> Now both projects above seem to have some of this functionality in terms of
> mapping onboard devices to the "SCSI" bus. However, it seems that each are
> targeted towards higher speed transports (iSCSI, Infiniband, etc.). Nothing
> I could find indicates that I could drop an Adaptec 2940 on a bus and do
> such a mapping. And the sampler has no facility to use any other transport.
>
> Any ideas on how I could do this? It would actually be a better setup than
> trying to transfer CDs or shifting cables on hard disks.

netcat? As long as the device can output to a pipe, netcat can move
the data around.

>
> BAJ
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