ANSI - INCITS 309
Information Technology – Serial Storage Architecture - SCSI-3 Protocol (SSA-S3P)
Organization: | ANSI |
Publication Date: | 1 December 1997 |
Status: | active |
Page Count: | 66 |
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This document defines a protocol layer of the Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) that runs on SSA-TL2 while running on SSA-PH2. The goals of SSA-S3P are:
a) map the SAM services and terminology to SSA;
b) define the data field format of the SSA-S3P SMSs;
c) support for dual port and alternate pathing;
d) provide support for auto-sense;
e) provide support for third-party operations;
f) other capabilities that fit within the scope of SSA-S3P that may be proposed during the development phase by the participants in the project.
This document defines the SCSI-3 protocol layer of the Serial Storage Architecture (SSA). SSA defines a serial interface hierarchy to be used for purposes within its distance and performance characteristics, including but not limited to storage subsystems. This standard is intended to be used with a transport layer protocol [e.g., SSA Transport Layer 2 (SSA-TL2)] and a physical layer [e.g., SSA Physical Layer 2 (SSA-PH2)].
SSA family of standards
This document describes an upper-level protocol of Serial Storage Architecture. SSA-S3P is a mapping of the existing SCSI-2 protocol, ANSI X3.131-1994, with extensions to map SCSI-2 to the SSA serial link.
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