Interface Requirements; How To Use This Interface Manual; Scope Of Scsi-3 Standards; Figure 1. Functional Scope Of Scsi-3 Standards - Seagate SCSI Interface Product Manual

SCSI Interface Product Manual, Rev. J
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Interface requirements

1.1

How to use this interface manual

For information about features not included herein that the newer drives may support, refer to the standards
listed in Section 1.1.1.
This specification is designed to provide a universal detailed description of the SCSI interface for those drive
products whose individual drive's Product Manual, Volume 1, do not contain the details of how the SCSI inter-
face is implemented by that drive.
Note. Individual drive's Product Manual, Volume 1, have tables that specify which SCSI-2/SCSI-3 features
the drive implements, what the default parameters are for the various features they implement and
which parameters are changeable and which are not.
No attempt is made in this universal specification to specify which descriptions or tables apply to only SCSI-2
or SCSI-3. The combination of this general specification with the details in the individual drive's Product Man-
ual, Volume 1, provides a description of the individual drive implementation of the SCSI interface.
This interface manual is not intended to be stand-alone text on SCSI-2/SCSI-3 features that Seagate drives
support. Reference must be made back to the individual drive's Product Manual to find out which SCSI-2/
SCSI-3 features a particular drive supports.
This specification is Volume 2 of a set of manuals that is made up of an individual drive's Product Manual, Vol-
ume 1, and this manual. This Volume 2 manual is referenced by other Volume 1 Product Manuals representing
other drives Seagate produces.
1.1.1

Scope of SCSI-3 standards

Figure 1 uses a representative set of specifications to show the functional partitions and the relationships
among SCSI-3 standards applicable to drives covered by this product manual.
Figure 1. Functional scope of SCSI-3 standards
SCSI-3 Block
Commands (SBC)
SCSI-3 Primary
Commands (SPC)
SCSI-3
Interlocked Fibre Channel
Protocol (SIP) Protocol (FCP)
SCSI-3 Fibre Channel
Parallel Physical and Signaling
Interface (SPI) Interface (FC-PH)
Commands
SCSI-3
Protocols
Interconnects
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