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diff --git a/README.iscsi b/README.iscsi new file mode 100644 index 00000000..917190a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.iscsi @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +iSCSI support for sg3-utils is available from external patches. + +To build sg3-utils from sources and activate built-in iSCSI support +you need both sg3-utils and the external user-space iSCSI library hosted at : + +https://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi + +This library provides a client library for accessing remote iSCSI +devices and also comes with patches to the sg3-utils source code +distribution to compile a special version of sg3-utils with iSCSI +support. + +No support for iSCSI is provided by the sg3-utils maintainer. + + + +Once sg3-utils is compiler and installed with libiscsi support, you +can specify remote iSCSI devices through a special URL format instead +of the normal /dev/* syntax. + +Example: + +sg_inq iscsi://ronnie%password@10.1.1.27/iqn.ronnie.test/1 +standard INQUIRY: + PQual=0 Device_type=0 RMB=0 version=0x05 [SPC-3] + [AERC=0] [TrmTsk=1] NormACA=0 HiSUP=0 Resp_data_format=2 + SCCS=0 ACC=0 TPGS=0 3PC=0 Protect=0 BQue=0 + EncServ=0 MultiP=0 [MChngr=0] [ACKREQQ=0] Addr16=0 + [RelAdr=0] WBus16=0 Sync=0 Linked=0 [TranDis=0] CmdQue=1 + [SPI: Clocking=0x0 QAS=0 IUS=0] + length=66 (0x42) Peripheral device type: disk + Vendor identification: IET + Product identification: VIRTUAL-DISK + Product revision level: 0001 + Unit serial number: beaf11 + + |