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Turning a PC into a Firewire-Based SAN?

Posted by Cliff on from the reuse-is-a-wonderful-thing dept.

Rachovenov asks: "So I've finally plunked down the money for one of those new, shiny Powerbooks, but they don't have much storage. My old PC is just sitting here with 2 identical 250 gig disks spinning away and an empty firewire port. There's even a hardware RAID controller in there somewhere. So why not use it as a low cost RAID 1 array for the Powerbook when I'm at home? Has anyone done this? How could I make it so that Mac OS X just sees it as a couple of Firewire drives?"

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  1. Re:Errrr... by Kalak · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Errrr...Did you read the question at all? That is not an answer to the question. He's not looking for a Firewire disk container, but to turn a PC into a firewire device.

    AFAIK, IIRC, the only way to do this would be to raid the drives on the PC and export them via NFS or SMB and set up TCP/IP over firewire.

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  2. TCP/IP over firewire by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    TCP/IP over firewire.

    run it as a samba server, but connect through the firtewire. google it...it'll work and be fast.

  3. Mod parent up... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    it's the only post in the whole thread that actually answered the question!