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- August 18, 1989
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- The CAM (Common Access Method) Committee meetings of August 9-10 were hosted
- by Emulex in Costa Mesa. The following attendees were present:
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- D. Allan ENDL J. O'Hara SEAGATE
- J. Armstrong NCR D. O'Shea FUTURE DOMAIN
- C. Ballard BALLARD SYNERGY J. Polonsky SMS
- B. Barnett OLIVETTI K. Post FUTURE DOMAIN
- S. Betts NCR M. Ramezani FUTURE DOMAIN
- F. Burgess SEAGATE L. Robinson STORAGE DIMENSIONS
- J. Gallant DIGITAL EQUIPMENT E. Savoldi NCR
- R. Hoehnle SEAGATE S. Shah WESTERN DIGITAL
- W. Ihde LMS OSD T. Shea ADAPTEC
- A. Jardetzky OLIVETTI P. Stephens CIPHER/IRWIN
- M. Jerbic HEWLETT PACKARD T. Stockwell MICROSOFT
- R. Kramarz 1776 E. Tausheck HEWLETT PACKARD
- R. Lewis EMULEX R. Tewell COLUMBIA DATA
- P. Manley SYQUEST TECHNOLOGY D. Trupski OLIVETTI
- G. Marazas IBM A. Welsh COLUMBIA DATA
- G. Milligan IMPRIMIS J. Willis 1776
- D. Neufeld COMPAQ C. Yang EMULEX
- T. Newman ADAPTEC E. Young ARCHIVE
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- Working Group Reports
-
- Participants interested in the specific of the working group activities
- should call the leader of each effort.
-
- ATA/EATA
-
- The working group met in San Jose on August 2, hosted by Cirrus Logic. The
- comments received from Cirrus Logic, Imprimis, Western Digital et al were
- reviewed and the ATA specification was critiqued in detail.
-
- There was no review of EATA.
-
- If your company has a 40-pin ATA, send Tom (Fax: 714-553-8152) a list of
- your Vendor Unique commands and their opcodes. If you do not, you just
- might wind up with your opcodes defined as Reserved, and not supposed to
- be used.
-
- Rev 1.4 of ATA/EATA is attached. It includes the changes recommended at the
- WG. Any item which remains unresolved is identified in square braces and
- names the person with the action to complete it. Changes are marked in bold.
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- Unix
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- The Unix OSD working group was canceled because Joe Lawlor and Todd Reichert
- could not make it.
-
- Meeting
-
- This meeting had been set up to run two days on the assumption that there
- would be documents to review. However, there was no draft working document
- to review so both days were dedicated to proposals for the DOS OSD and the
- wrinkles that would have to be considered for OS/2.
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- Presentations on current implementations/proposals were made by:
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- C. Ballard BALLARD SYNERGY
- D. O'Shea FUTURE DOMAIN
- S. Shah WESTERN DIGITAL
- T. Shea ADAPTEC
- P. Stephens CIPHER/IRWIN
-
- The Chicago departure from the goal of an OS-independent SIM was debated.
- This decision was questioned during the presentations, and seemed completely
- done away with when Clint made the statement that he had developed a ROMable
- SIM. The OSDs are unlikely to have diverging OSDs.
-
- The similarities in functions needed led to the conclusion that a single
- data structure could work for all environments, so the second day was spent
- reaching agreement on what could be used by the OSs that were known to be
- required (DOS, Novell, OS/2, Unix, Windows/386)
-
- There was extensive discussion on pointers (virtual, real et al) and the
- sizes needed. It was agreed that a 64-bit pointer field would be used and
- each different platform (OS and CPU) would define the contents.
-
- It is hoped that a document will be available by the September meeting, or
- in the mailing immediately thereafter.
-
- September Agenda: There will be no shortage of content at the meeting in
- Oklahoma. Ted Stockwell volunteered a joint presentation by Microsoft and
- IBM on OS/2, and Jerry Marazas will architecturally explore the BIOS
- requirements to support DOS.
-
- Future Meetings:
-
- Air fares are the most expensive part of attending meetings, and in recent
- months we have all noticed a general increase in costs as the airlines cut
- back on their discounted travel programs.
-
- The airlines which have agreed to provide special air fares for all CAM
- meetings (as well as other ANSI meetings and working groups) are United and
- Northwest. The arrangements for each airline are the same.
-
- - Call a special 800 number which connects you to the Meetings desk.
- - The Meetings desk has limited hours, so no late night calling!
- - Supply the Travel ID Number for the airline you are calling.
- - Receive a flat 40% discount on regular air fares.
- - Receive an additional 5% on discounted fares.
- - Make arrangements at least 7 days in advance.
- - You can be ticketed by your own agent.
-
- Travel agents can use the number but they do not seem to like calling the
- Meetings desk - it takes longer than making reservations on their terminals
- and the airfare is lower (smaller commission).
-
- Airline Phone Number Meeting
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- United 800-521-4041 413TA All
- Northwest 800-328-1111 15201 All
- American 800-433-1790 *S08Z94E All
-
- Our hosts are committed to a minimum number of room nights which are used to
- offset the cost of the conference rooms. Please make sure the hotel is given
- the name of the host organizing the meeting, even if it means placing the
- call yourself.
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- Date Host City Hotel Hotel Phone
- ---- ---- ---- ----- -----------
- 9/ 8/89 Imprimis Oklahoma City Sheraton 405-235-2780
- 10/ 6/89 DPT Orlando Royal Plaza 407-828-2828
- 11/ 1/89 Future Domain Irvine Embassy Suites 714-
-
- Todd Reichert invites everyone who wants to participate in the Unix Working
- Group activities, to upload an E-Mail number to the SCSI BBS so he can add
- them to his E-Mail distribution list.
-
- Area 13 of the SCSI BBS (316-636-8700) is the clearing house between members
- working on proposals. Proposals etc will be in the Files section and short
- exchanges are in the Message section. If you think something should be on
- the board but is not, you may want to check Area 9 also.
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- I. Dal Allan
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