1.3.6.1.4.1.61513May 8, 2024

It is done. My quest to get a scanner to working over iSCSI is complete.

I can now safely claim that Chris on SuperUser is wrong. There is nothing stopping you from having scanners running over a storage network.

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2024/05/08/jbos/

This has been one of my dumbest, expensive and time consuming projects.

Just a bunch of scanners (JBOS?)

Can you run scanners over iSCSI?

Show thread[HANDMAIDEN] xanMay 9, 2024
@xssfox Oh my goodness, my world for an iSCSI initiator embedded in a self-terminated parallel SCSI connector! A modest Ceph cluster of Macintosh boot volumes and Falcon030 external drives, all snapshotted through time. Modern elegance to match timeless design. This is a white whale of mine which bears relentless pursuit.
Show threadatsukoMay 9, 2024
@xan sounds like a nice addition for wireless version of BlueSCSI v2
Show thread[HANDMAIDEN] xan
@yottatsa It's weird to me that in the evolution of SCSI itself this class of device appears to represent a missing link; did these devices ever exist within their minuscule era, or are they forever apocryphal?
May 9, 2024 at 2:15pmWeb
Show threadatsukoMay 10, 2024
@xan i guess only in very enterprise environment, e.g. ethernet cards with full hardware iscsi offload (dunno if they only offload, or present as hba)
rp2040 (in BlueSCSIv2) runs on 133mhz, so would guess while it was possible to implement it back than, it wasn’t readily available
Show thread[HANDMAIDEN] xanMay 10, 2024
@yottatsa Another thing I keep thinking about, which would definitely require an FPGA, would be an NVMe to SCSI adapter. Sure I'd potentially have to pay a lot to license usage of a PCIe IP core but at least the command sets map fairly well!
Show thread[HANDMAIDEN] xanMay 10, 2024
@yottatsa you know what? in retrospect I think I was thinking about the lack of adapters between serial and parallel SCSI. I have severe brain problems 😅
Show threadatsukoMay 10, 2024
@xan this would be so cool.. i guess iscsi to share any device with old machine and vice versa would be useful, too.. think all the cdroms and tapes and whatnots