T10 SCSI Storage Interfaces

The INCITS T10 committee website is at http://www.t10.org/. Among the draft documents available at this website are excellent versions of the SCSI Architecture Model (SAM). A great deal of open-system storage operating theory can be derived by reading the SAM documents.

T10 Subcommittees and Working Groups

The following is a list of subject areas under development as T10 standards that have documents available on the T10 committee website:

  • SBC— SCSI Block Commands (disk drive commands)

  • RBC— Reduced Block Commands (simplified disk drive commands)

  • SSC— SCSI Stream Commands

  • SMC— SCSI Media Changer Commands

  • MMC— Multimedia Commands

  • SCC— SCSI Controller Commands

  • SES— SCSI Enclosure Services

  • OSD— Object-based Storage Devices ...

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