The Essential Guide to Serial ATA and SATA Express

by David A. Deming

Overview

Written by an engineer, this book is for those who aren't afraid of digging into the technical details. David Deming, a leading storage networking technologist, presents the necessary SATA information and references required to design, analyze, and troubleshoot any data center application utilizing SATA technology. The book will help readers with tasks associated with the installation, configuration, and care of SATA-based storage applications. Readers will learn how SATA powers data center applications and how it influences and interacts with all protocol layers and system components.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040055502
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	10/09/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

David Deming is the president and chief technologist of Solution Technology. With a degree in electronics engineering and more than two decades of industry experience, David has designed many courses covering a wide range of storage and networking technologies. David's organization is the industry's leading supplier of storage technology education, and David has personally trained over 50,000 engineers worldwide. David has authored over a dozen storage technology-related publications and is an expert instructional designer. He has assisted many companies with detailed job and task analysis, resulting in high-stakes certification programs and curriculum.

David is an active member of numerous industry associations and committees. In the early stages of Fibre Channel technology, David organized and coordinated the efforts of the Interoperability Testing Program for the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA). As interoperability program chair, David played a major role in organizing competing switch vendor efforts to create the first ever FC switch interoperability demonstration. This technology accomplishment was the centerpiece of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Technology Center grand opening in Colorado Springs, Colorado. David also authorized the SANmark program, which became the cornerstone test cases developed and administered by the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL).

David architected and designed the first-ever multi-vendor (heterogeneous) Fibre Channel SAN featured in Computer Technology Review, and he coordinated the industry's first and largest Interoperability Lab demonstration for Storage Networking World. David has been a voting member of the NCITS T11 Fibre Channel standards committee and has served on T10 (SCSI & SAS) and T10.1 (SSA) standards committees. He is a founder and active member of the SNIA Education Committee and Certification Task Force for which, i

Table of Contents

Introduction. SATA Technical Overview. SATA Application Layer. SATA Transport Layer. SATA Link Layer. Physical Layer. Error Handling. Cables and Connectors. Port Multipliers and Selectors. Software and Drivers.