Chapter 2. Direct-Attached Storage

Storage systems were first developed for mainframe computers, and most were proprietary. Standards such as SCSI were developed to work with the minicomputer. With the advent of the PC, server standards such as SCSI and IDE started to flourish.

This chapter describes direct-attached storage—that is, storage devices directly connected to a Windows NT server. Chapter 1 described the Windows NT storage I/O stack in detail. This chapter explains developments in the Windows NT storage I/O stack designed to improve the handling of newer Fibre Channel and SCSI devices that appear to the Windows NT server as direct-attached devices.

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