[KLUG Members] Putting A Burner On The Network

[Adam Tauno WIlliams]

> > > > I have a DVD burner I'd like to make available on the corporate
> > > > for people to use remotely.  Anyone done this or looked into it?  I
> > > > think of ways to cobble such a scheme together, but I'd prefer
> > > 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. 

Yep, looks that way.  I'm fine with that since all the potential users
are at this facility, not more that three switches away.  Can't imagine
someone over the WAN using something like this.

> 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.

My opinion as well, at least for this type of application.  But if you
were driving a RAID cluster over ethernet I'd imagine every tiny
improvement you can muster would help.

> Please let the list know what you decide to do.

Will do.