[KLUG Members] Putting A Burner On The Network

[Robert V. Kanaley]

> > > I have a DVD burner I'd like to make available on the corporate
network,
> > > for people to use remotely.  Anyone done this or looked into it?  I
can
> > > think of ways to cobble such a scheme together, but I'd prefer
something
> > > that doesn't suck.
> > A friend of mine (not on this list) has been raving about HyperSCSI,
> > which allows you to access SCSI devices on remote PC's across the
> > network.  He's used it for accessing remote tape drives and CD drives,
> > and loves it.  Never tried it myself, so I don't know the details.
> >
> > Just a thought, FWIW ...  :-)
>
>http://nst.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/mcsa/hyperscsi
>
>The HyperSCSI home page doesn't load. :(  But references make it sound
>interesting...  And supposedly the most recent version has a Win32
>client-side driver.

Bruce's link http://www.dsi.a-star.edu.sg/research/hyper.html should get you
started. From what I have read (mostly from the iSCSI people) HyperSCSI uses
their own protocol over Ethernet rather than using IP. The iSCSI people say
that HyperSCSI is an "unreliable" protocol that avoids the IP overhead to
speed things up. Funny, I didn't think there was much more than frame
checking in straight IP. I thought it was up to the transport layer and the
application layer to do the error checking.

Please let the list know what you decide to do.

Regards,

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk at agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com