26 Nov
2008
26 Nov
'08
3:39 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Nor me. The way I understand it, there was SASI, then
there was "early
SCSI", and then eventually the Inquiry command crept in and became
part of the Common Command Set. All the bridge boards I've seen are
from the SASI or early SCSI days...
The INQUIRY command is listed in what I assume
is the original SCSI
standard (ANSI X3.131-1986). It is given this notation: "Command
implementation is required for SCSI devices that support
device-independent self-configuring software." So the standard gave it
somewhat more than "optional" status, implying that this would be the
standard way for a device to send its configuration data to the driver
software, if it wanted to.
How soon devices and drivers started to use this is another matter.
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