werner@milano.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig) (03/17/90)
"The world's worst acronym could be the standard peripheral interface for the 1990s" this article contains enough information that if we all would make an effort and read this article, the discussion in this group would soar to new technical heights ... :-) here is a quick enumeration of the FAT paragraph headers of the article(s): A BRIEF HISTORY OF SCSI SCSI PRINCIPLES TARGETS AND INITIATORS TWO FLAVORS (single-ended and differential SCSI) (i.e. 25-pin versus 50-pin connectors) JUST A PASSING PHASE SCSI TIME LINE SAMPLE SCSI I/O SYSTEMS SCSI BUS PHASES WITH AND WITHOUT ARBITRATION THE SCSI SIGNALS INFORMATION TRANSFER PHASES AND SCSI CONTROL SIGNALS A SAMPLE TRANSACTION SCSI COMMANDS STATUS BYTES 6-BYTE COMMAND DESCRIPTOR BLOCK THE COMMON ACCESS METHOD APPLE SCSI: NOT QUITE STANDARD SCSI-2 AND BEYOND STATUS BYTE CODES SOURCES (for specs: ANSI Institute and from SCSI-BBS at (316)636-8700 for SCSI-2 specs) the CAM environment SCSI in the Real World Compatibility test will be next Thursday ! Cheers, ---Werner -- --------------------------> please send REPLIES to <------------------------ INTERNET: werner@cs.utexas.edu or: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Internet # 128.83.144.1) UUCP: ...<well-connected-site>!cs.utexas.edu!werner