I have posted the next revision of the SCSI/ATA Translation (SAT) working draft: http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/sat/sat-r03.pdf
Revision-3 contains the following changes from revision-2:
a) Incorporated 04-262r8: ATA Command Pass-Through;
b) Incorporated 04-397r3: Control Mode Page Proposal;
c) Added several terms to the definitions;
d) Added several items to the acronyms list which already had corresponding definitions in the glossary;
e) Deleted the placeholder subclause 7.2 SCSI ATA Passthrough command as subclause 13.2 has already been added for this command;
f) Deleted text in the subclause defining conventions for character strings (3.4.3) that describes the representation of non-printable ASCII characters; and replaced it with a statement on using the ‘�’ character to represent a space in a string;
g) Replace the word “execute” (and variants) with the word “process” (or appropriate variant) wherever it refers to the processing of a command or task;
h) Qualified text in the clause 7.1, Translated and emulated commands, to clarify that optional commands in SPC-3 and SBC-2 are optional in SAT, and that the translation for unlisted commands is vendor-specific;
i) Added Table-4 commands summary entries for 16-byte block access commands, READ (16), READ CAPACITY(16), SYNCHRONIZE CACHE (16), VERIFY (16), WRITE (16), WRITE AND VERIFY (16), and WRITE SAME(16) - appropriate clauses will be entered when proposals are submitted;
j) Added Table-4 commands summary entries for VERIFY (12), WRITE AND VERIFY(12), and WRITE SAME(10) commands - appropriate clauses will be entered when proposals are submitted;
k) Added the FLUSH CACHE EXT command as one of the ATA commands used to implement the SCSI SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command;
l) Modified the description of the DEXCPT field in the Informational Exceptions Control Mode Page (table 65);
m) Clarified the description of the REQUEST SENSE command; and
n) Made miscellaneous editorial changes.
Bob Sheffield
Intel Corporation - CH6-333
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