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The Essential Guide to Serial ATA and SATA Express
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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
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Chapter 4
SATA Transport Layer
Objectives
Protocol characteristics of the SATA Transport layer
All Frame Information Structures (FIS) format and use cases
Detailed FIS field definitions
FIS Status and Error codes
Enhancement to transport protocol to reduce data processing overhead, including First-party
DMA
SATA II registers for discovery, configuration, queuing, and asynchronous events
Command processing protocol examples for all protocols (PIO, DMA, ATAPI, etc.)
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
Protocol changes from original SATA queuing model
Queuing commands and Set Device Bits FIS examples
Queuing management commands ...
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ISBN: 9781482243314