Skip to Main Content
The Essential Guide to Serial ATA and SATA Express
book

The Essential Guide to Serial ATA and SATA Express

by David A. Deming
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
496 pages
15h 38m
English
Auerbach Publications
Content preview from The Essential Guide to Serial ATA and SATA Express
SATA Technical Overview 61
SAS primitives use “big-endian” (Table 2.23) or first byte/last byte notation. This notation posi-
tions byte 0 (1st byte) of the dword in left most position and byte 3 (4th byte) is the right most byte,
similar to reading from left to right.
Table 2.22 SATA Primitives Notation
Primitive Name Byte 3 Byte 2 Byte 1 Byte 0
ALIGN D27.3 D10.2 D10.2 K28.5
CONT D25.4 D25.4 D10.5 K28.3
- - - - - - - - - - - - K28.3
Table 2.23 SAS Primitives Notation
Primitive Name
1st
Byte 0
2nd
Byte 1
3rd
Byte 2
4th
Byte 3
ALIGN (0) K28.5 D10.2 D10.2 D27.3
SATA_CONT K28.3 D10.5 D25.4 D25.4
- - - Kxx.y - - - - - - - - -
2.10 SATA Primitives and Data Words ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Advances in Non-volatile Memory and Storage Technology

Advances in Non-volatile Memory and Storage Technology

Yoshio Nishi
Implementing IBM FlashSystem 900 Model AE3

Implementing IBM FlashSystem 900 Model AE3

Detlef Helmbrecht, Jim Cioffi, David Gimpl, Jon Herd, Christian Karpp, Katja Kratt, Eike Schenk

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781482243314