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SSA RAID Adapter Installation and User's Guide.
Serial Storage Architecture (SSA)
C.1 Serial Storage Architecture (SSA)
Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) is an industry-standard interface that provides high-performance fault-tolerant attachment of I/O
storage devices. SSA is an open standard, and SSA specifications have been approved by the SSA Industry Association and are in
the process of being approved as an ANSI standard through the ANSI X3T10.1 subcommittee.
In SSA subsystems, transmissions to several destinations are multiplexed; the effective bandwidth is further increased by spatial
reuse of the individual links. Commands are forwarded automatically from device to device along a loop until the target device is
reached. Multiple commands can be travelling around the loop simultaneously. SSA retains the SCSI-2 commands, queuing model,
and status and sense bytes.
Subtopics
C.1.1 SSA Loops and Links
C.1.2 Rules for SSA Loops
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