On Feb 14, 2005, at 11:17 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> PS. SCSI over IP is VERY strange thing anyway, but why defining ATA 
> over IP too it's complete nonsense. SCSI over IP could be ok for any 
> media (other side don't need to know if it's  IDE or SCSI)

SCSI-over-IP (a.k.a iSCSI -- and it's actually SCSI-over-TCP) isn't any 
more strange than SCSI-over-FC (which, of course, already exists).

And, if you're using the SATA framing protocol, ATA commands over any 
other packet-oriented network isn't really much of a stretch.  Of 
course, there are a lot of good reasons to just do SCSI over those 
packet-oriented networks, since SCSI has a much richer command set and 
architecture model.

-- thorpej