Here is an example of when I needed to mount a SCSI device on a host through
USB or eSATA. Today I had a Windows 2000 box that I needed to virtualize
and bring over to a server. I can run the utility to turn the computer
into a virtual machine image, but how do I get the files from this box to
the destination. I have SCSI on the box and USB 1.0. Using USB 1.0, I
can mount a SATA drive, but the conversion utility tells me it will take 17
hours to run. If I can use a SCSI device that cuts down to two hours.
Assuming I target the files to a SCSI drive, once the conversion finishes,
now I need to get those files over to the virtual server. What I would
like to do is physically remove that SCSI device, attach it to an adapter to
USB or eSATA, and then hot attach it to the virtual server.
My application is simply getting quick connectivity to the drive, in order
to transfer data. I have no requirements for any kind of enclosure, and
this is not long term storage.
Unfortunately, I don't have an easy path to using SCSI. So I'm stuck with
a 17 hour job that will run to a SATA drive.
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W
"Maxim S. Shatskih" wrote in message
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What is the need in this?
SCSI drives are much more expensive.
So, you do the following:
- turn off the enclosure
- plug the usual SATA drive to it
- turn on the enclosure
- attach it to the host using USB, 1394 or eSATA. In eSATA case, you
sometimes need to restart the host controller's driver using Windows Device
Manager or the appropriate Linux/FreeBSD command line tools
- go on
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Maxim S. Shatskih
Windows DDK MVP
http://www.storagecraft.com
"W" wrote in message
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NewerTech make a product named Voyager Q to interface SATA drives to a
host
by USB, Firewire, or eSATA. This is sometimes called a "drive toaster"
because of the way you can mount a drive vertically into the enclosure
without the need for any tray. Does anyone make something similar for a
hotswap SCSI drive? It would be incredibly useful for forensics and the
occasional drive backup to be able to just slip a hotswap SCSI drive into
the vertical slot and hot plug it to the host.
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W