Chapter 14. Common Access Method
Common Access Method (CAM) is an ANSI standard. Although primarily used for SCSI, CAM is a method for separating host bus adapter (HBA) drivers from storage drivers. HBAs are devices (that is, a card or integrated circuit) that connect the host to other devices. For example, USB HBAs allow the host to communicate with USB devices.
By separating HBA drivers from storage drivers, CAM reduces the complexity of individual drivers. Furthermore, this separation enables storage drivers (such as CD-ROM and tape drivers) to control their devices on anyI/O bus (such as IDE, SCSI, and so on) as long as an appropriate HBA driver ...
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