Hi all- I work for an assembler of external SCSI storage devices. That is, we take a bare device and assemble it into a single-device chassis. The devices are everything: DLT's, DAT's, Hard Drives, CD-ROMS, CD-writers, and DVD's. Some are desktop models and some are rack-ready. The finished assemblies are tested before shipping. The test verifies that the correct device (model and revision) is correctly connected (SCSI I/O and ID switch). I'm not a SCSI expert, but I think some minimal amount of reading and writing is performed, but we don't need to stress test or quality test the devices themselves. We need a new tester. Most off-the-shelf SCSI testers are aimed at quality testing the devices, and are difficult to customize for this high-mix, simple test process, and are very expensive. I'm throwing around the idea of using a Linux box with an assortment of SCSI adapters installed as the new test apparatus. It would require a custom application to run the test using, I'm thinking, the generic SCSI driver (sg). It would need to be able to test all SCSI ID's on all adapters simultaneously (it's OK that all devices on a certain bus must be started at the same time.) Is this feasible? Are there any kernel or driver limitations that would prevent it? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks, Tim - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
