(Silliness) Two servers connecting to iSCSI target

[jgreco]

ISCSI is like hooking up a USB drive. You can't connect it to multiple machines (unless the OS is using a clustering filesystem).

... idly wonders how @depasseg is hooking up USB drives to multiple machines using a clustering filesystem ...

 

[depasseg]

With a USB splitter, duh!

 

[jgreco]

mod note: moved/split from thread

I just tried that but the splitter started smoking and both PC's turned off...

 

[Ericloewe]

Considering USB type C has officially adopted the "We accept and endorse all topologies, no matter how crazy!" philosophy (also known as the "Holy fscking %#&@, I am seriously confused about this thing! How is Joe Consumer going to react to this???" philosophy or the "Didn't you miss the days when you had a crapton of very similar connectors that said absolutely nothing about what they did? Let's do that again!" school of engineering), I'm guessing someone will make a cable that has no chance of working, because fsck this, it's just as likely to work on a random USB type C port as a DisplayPort adapter, a 100W consumer or a thunderbolt 3 device so the consumer will go "oh well, I guess this won't work".
I mean, tunneling PCI-e over the USB type C physical layer and implementing a PCI-e USB 3.1 controller on the device side, while also carrying optional DisplayPort data which is incompatible with the other DisplayPort over USB type C standard? Seriously, I get a headache bigger than most Samba-induced headaches just by thinking about the figurative headaches this is going to cause.
Someone at Intel must've been smoking some nasty stuff...

... idly wonders how @depasseg is hooking up USB drives to multiple machines using a clustering filesystem ...

ATA over Ethernet solves the physical layer problem. I imagine the interposer's software could be hacked enough to accept ATA commands from multiple clients...

 

[Bidule0hm]

And, BTW, DisplayPort is a lie...

 

[cyberjock]

Very cool picture!

 

[Darren Myers]

And, BTW, DisplayPort is a lie...

Does it have a OBD-II port?

 

[Ericloewe]

DisplayPort isn't a lie, it's just the most misunderstood of high-bandwidth differential signaling interfaces.

Seriously though, everything was going well with USB 3.1 and DisplayPort over USB type C - that's simple enough and they're still compatible with one another, allowing for mixtures.
Thunderbolt 3 ruins the simplicity by implementing a new and incompatible way of doing everything USB 3.1 was already doing. At least they had the decency to make the thunderbolt controller also be a USB 3.1 controller...

 

[Ericloewe]

Does it have a OBD-II port?

Don't get me started.

BMWs and Minis include a set of pins that are actually Ethernet pairs - they lead to the infotainment computer, but only starting with their late-2008 model and if the thing is actually installed. You can then interact with the thing (it has a web server... Whole thing runs on some real-time OS) with bog-standard TCP/IP.

 

[depasseg]

I wondered what happened to this message.

 

[anodos]

And, BTW, DisplayPort is a lie...

No serial? Seriously?

 

[Ericloewe]

No serial? Seriously?

Just add a gender changer to the parallel port and you're good.

 

[anodos]

Just add a gender changer to the parallel port and you're good.

In the spirit of throwback Thursday... But is it straight through or null modem?

 

[Ericloewe]

In the spirit of throwback Thursday... But is it straight through or null modem?

Ok, use two null modem gender changers and one straight through. Remove one each if you want null modem.

 

[Noctris]

Don't get me started.

BMWs and Minis include a set of pins that are actually Ethernet pairs - they lead to the infotainment computer, but only starting with their late-2008 model and if the thing is actually installed. You can then interact with the thing (it has a web server... Whole thing runs on some real-time OS) with bog-standard TCP/IP.

Hmm.. you got a source on that ? That's something i'd like to see ;-)

 

[gpsguy]

Don't forget your USB to serial converter, since laptops of today don't include serial ports anymore. I think I had to use it twice in the past 30 days.

Remove one each if you want null modem.

 

[Ericloewe]

Hmm.. you got a source on that ? That's something i'd like to see ;-)

The basics: http://www.motor-talk.de/forum/aktion/Attachment.html?attachmentId=698293

The coding forums have details, like what you can do with this on CIC (the old not-absolutely-horrible infotainment computer) and NBT (the current-but-not-for-much-longer version).