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- From: karl@robots.in-berlin.de (Karl-P. Huestegge)
- Subject: Re: Novice questions about SCSI terminology
- Organization: K.-P. Huestegge, Systemanalyse und Beratung, Berlin
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:23:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.042334.17278@robots.in-berlin.de>
- References: <1992Nov13.221759.14191@ultra.com> <1992Nov14.190211.13256@ukw.uucp>
- Keywords: SCSI-1, SCSI-2, FAST SCSI, single-ended, differential
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- lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:
-
- >SCSI-1 refers to the old SCSI standard (I don't have the ANSI
- >name handy) that talked only about which lines the bus has,
- >how you twiddle them for the various bus phases, how commands
- >look. It failed to define the commands semantics, so this was
- >resolved later with the CCS (Common Command Standard or similar).
-
- No, the command semantic was described in group 0,1 and 7 (six,
- 10 and 12 byte) commands with a common command Set for all Devices
- and special command sets for
- direct-access devices,
- sequential-access devices,
- printer devices,
- processor devices,
- write-once read-multiple and
- read-only devices.
- A lot of commands where defined as extended, optional or vendor
- unique.
- For instance, the INQUIRY (op 12) command was defined as an extended
- command, SCSI-2 made it mandatory.
-
- So SCSI-2 is a subset of SCSI-1 at the command level. A lot of devices
- are conform to SCSI-1 but only a few of them implement their interface
- exactly as described in SCSI-2. There is no rule in SCSI-2 that was
- forbidden in SCSI-1.
-
- >A device that adheres to the SCSI-1 standard but not to SCSI-2
- >is for example the ancient Adaptec ACB-4000 SCSI/ST-506 controller
- >Sun used in the first shoeboxes.
-
- Indeed. A lot of vendor unique "features". Dito a lot of other
- controllers made by Emulex, WD, NCR, Omti and Fujitsu.
-
- >SCSI-2 is a recent standard that not only incorporates CCS, but
- >also some more device types, I believe. It also defines Fast
- >(10 MB/sec) and wide (16 and 32 bit) modes.
-
- BTW, is there already such a generic wide-bus beast ?
-
- Karl-Peter.
-
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