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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
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Chapter 9
Port Multipliers and Selectors
Objectives
This chapter will cover details concerning hardware that provides device connectivity and high avail-
ability to SATA system designs. SATA has limited connectivity and availability:
Point-to-point serial links
Only allow for a single host to device connection
Single-ported devices providing only one path to the device
If that port or path fails, then the device is no longer available to the host system
The Port multiplier and selector topic list includes the following:
Port multipliers
Address connectivity
PM ports
Addressing
FIS modification, delivery, and Link layer protocol ...
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ISBN: 9781482243314