ISCSI/MacOSX

MacOSX iSCSI on a TiBook G4 connected to Playstation3/iSCSI watching QuickTime video over wired Ethernet.

MacOSX iSCSI on a TiBook G4 connected to many different LIO-Target architectures, watching iSCSI/DVD.

MacOSX Disk Utility Info for LIO-Target IBLOCK LUN.

MacOSX iSCSI with the SmallTree iSCSI Initiator connected to Ubuntu LIO-VM!

Introduction

The SmallTree v0.6.8 iSCSI Initiator for MacOSX is up and running!

Using this initiator with LIO-Target requires at least v2.9-STABLE r301. Also, if you are looking to get an LIO-Target setup quickly, and using VMs, have a look at LIO-VM.

Inside of the VM, I am able to create a filesystem using Disk Utility, and mount said filesystem, etc. I am also able to copy files into the iSCSI mount, and everything appears stable.

So far, this initiator has been tested on MacOSX 10.4.8 in VMware Workstation 6, and in MacOSX on a PowerBook G4 Tibook.

Also, R/O mounts from MacOSX formatted filesystems in Linux/iSCSI Initiators VMs using hfsplus also works. Obviously as HFS is not a cluster filesystem, use care when accessing a single hfs mount with R/W and multiple iSCSI Initiators.

What works..?

So far, the following has been tested:

• ) MacOSX iSCSI Initiators Nodes

       TiBook G4 MacOSX v10.4.11
       VMWare Workstation Linux v6 + MacOSX v10.4.8 i386

• ) LIO-Target Nodes

       Playstation3/iSCSI running v2.6.25
       LIO-VM Debian running v2.6.18-etch
       Apple G4 Cube running LinuxPPC running v2.6.24

• ) Device Types

       TYPE_DISK: Works, audio/video playback is stable with VLC.

       TYPE_ROM: The TiBook crashes with DVD Player Optical drive access with PS3, LIO-VM from x86 Macbook Pro, G4 Cube.
                 However, an old Parallel SCSI DVD-ROM is playing stable from i386 Linux.
                 I imagine Leopard should be a bit better about accessing these Optical drives.  Also, VLC can play
                 VOB files for pre-Leopard cases.