Description
This course offers a comprehensive presentation of parallel SCSI, covering software, firmware, hardware, and all the other aspects of SCSI.
Objectives
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
Course Outline
Overview
- SCSI-1, SCSI-2, SCSI-3
- 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 and Commands
- Tape Commands, Modes and Errors
- Other SCSI Devices
Implementation Considerations
- Trends
- Host Adapters
- Device Drivers
- Target Controllers
Who Should Attend
Hardware or software engineer, programmer, manager, technical marketing and sales professionals.
Prerequisites