The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface: Protocols, Applications, and Programming [With A Fully Updated Disk Contains the Source Code...]

by Friedhelm Schmidt

Almost all computers, including PCs, workstations and mainframes, are equipped with a SCSI interface. The SCSI Bus is designed to connect hard drives, tape drives, CD-ROMs, scanners and printers to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201422840
• ISBN13: 9780201422849
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

SCSI Based Reference only

This book is mainly a reference for the SCSI Interested professional. It will not cover the IDE interface in as much detail as you would like. If you think you will be speaking specifically to a hard drive via code, you will have to memorize interrupt values, AND pay very close attention to the protocol information. This book isn't quite what you think,nor was it what i expected. Although an informative reference for basic SCSI devices, i'm still searching for one that will help me program for hard disks. Hope this was helpful.

What is the carburetor?

All right, so you can search under your bonnet until the cows come home. Yet no such thing exists. Vehicle technology has surpassed the carburetor, but one time you needed them. And you stuck them on your engine. But did you really know how they work? The SCSI Bus and IDE Interface are the carburetors of the computer world. Sure, you put them in computers. But to you really know how they worked? Well this here book has everything you ever wanted to now about those interfaces. It also contains a SCSI monitor tool together with the complete example source code on disk. SCSI has advanced to specialize in ever larger disk arrays. The simple one that was used in your PC is no longer or very hard to find. But it can not hurt to know what they are and how they work as being computer literate.