ANSI INCITS 309 : 1997 : R2007

Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
  1.1 SSA family of standards
  1.2 SCSI-3 family of standards
2 References
  2.1 Normative references
  2.2 Informative references
3 Definitions, symbols, abbreviations, and conventions
  3.1 Definitions
  3.2 Symbols and abbreviations
  3.3 Conventions
4 General
  4.1 Overview
  4.2 Model
5 Frames
6 SSA-S3P message structure
  6.1 Summary of SSA-S3P SMSs
  6.2 SMS validation
  6.3 SMS Buffer Full condition
  6.4 Limitation on task management SMSs
  6.5 TAG field values
  6.6 SCSI COMMAND SMS
  6.7 SCSI STATUS SMS
  6.8 CONFIRM STATUS SMS
  6.9 ENABLE AER SMS
  6.10 AER SMS
  6.11 ABORT TASK SMS
  6.12 ABORT TASK SET SMS
  6.13 CLEAR TASK SET SMS
  6.14 TARGET RESET SMS
  6.15 CLEAR ACA SMS
  6.16 LOGICAL UNIT RESET SMS
  6.17 SCSI RESPONSE SMS
7 Transport related items
  7.1 Spindle synchronization
  7.2 Unit attention flag in the Initiator Table
  7.3 Effects of reset conditions
8 SSA-S3P changes from parallel SCSI-3
  8.1 Untagged queuing is emulated
  8.2 Contingent Allegiance vs. Auto Contingent Allegiance
  8.3 Confirmed status
  8.4 Concurrent data transfers from a single target
  8.5 Multiple logical paths
  8.6 Unit attention
  8.7 Third party command support
  8.8 Optional SCSI-3 features not supported in SSA-S3P
  8.9 Mode Page 02h parameter differences
Annexes
Annex A (informative) Parallel SCSI-3 message to SSA-S3P
        SMS conversion
Annex B (informative) Some differences between SSA-S3P and
        parallel SCSI-3
Annex C (informative) Protocol services model
Annex D (informative) Transport Service handling

Describes a protocol layer of the Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) that runs on SSA-TL2 while running on SSA-PH2.