Course 313: SCSI Fundamentals

This course offers a comprehensive presentation of parallel SCSI, covering software, firmware, hardware, and all the other aspects of SCSI.

It provides not only a functional understanding of the SCSI specification, but also in-depth, practical, up-to-date information designed to optimize your SCSI related efforts.

• Fundamentals of SCSI
• How SCSI Works
• Connecting with SCSI Devices
• Troubleshooting a SCSI Installation
• SCSI-3 Explained
• Measuring Performance of SCSI Devices
• RAID Server Strategies
• Defect management
• Command queuing
• Messages
• Mode pages
• Signal interactions

Overview

• SCSI-1
• SCSI-2
• SCSI-2
• Termination
• New Command
• Command Queuing
• Migration to SCSI-3
• Wide SCSI
• Fast SCSI
• Fast Wide SCSI
• Ultra SCSI
• Ultra2 SCSI
• Wide Ultra2 SCSI
• Specifications
• Bus Devices
• Configurations
• Device Jumpers
• Bus Phases
• Status Values

Electrical Characteristics

• Cables & Connectors
• Termination
• Configuration
• Bus Signals
• Pin Assignment
• Bus Timings
• Bus Reset
• Attention Condition
• Information Transfer Phases
• Signals and Phase Sequences

SCSI Features

• Message Subsystem
• Identify
• Data Pointers
• Parity Error Handling
• Zero Latency
• Linked Commands
• Synchronous Transfer
• Fast SCSI
• Fast-20
• Wide Bus
• Tagged Queuing
• Extended Contingent Allegiance
• Asynchronous Event Notification-Parallel SCSI-3
• Architecture
• Document Structure
• New Messages
• New Inquiry Data
• XOR Commands
• SCAM
• LVD
• Fast-40 and Fast-80

SCSI Commands

• Command Groups
• Command Format
• Command Sets
• Test Unit Ready
• Inquiry
• Request Sense
• Contingent Allegiance
• Unit Attention
• Start/Stop
• Read/Write
• Reserve/Release
• Mode Select/Sense
• Mode Pages
• Defect Management
• Format Unit
• CD-ROM Data Formats
• CD-ROM Commands
• Tape Commands
• Tape Modes and Errors
• Other SCSI Devices

Implementation Considerations

• Trends
• Host Adapters
• Device Drivers
• Target Controllers