Re: TOE brain dump

On Sul, 2003-08-03 at 05:01, Ben Greear wrote:

Jeff Garzik wrote:

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So, fix the other end of the pipeline too, otherwise this fast network 
stuff is flashly but pointless.  If you want to serve up data from disk, 
then start creating PCI cards that have both Serial ATA and ethernet 
connectors on them :)  Cut out the middleman of the host CPU and host 

I for one would love to see something like this, and not just Serial ATA..
but maybe 8x Serial ATA and RAID :)

There is a protocol floating around for ATA over ethernet, no TCP layer
or nasty latency eating complexities in the middle