CSA Preface
Standards development within the Information Technology sector is harmonized with international standards development. Through the CSA Technical Committee on Information Technology (TCIT), Canadians serve as the Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC) on ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) for the Standards Council of Canada (SCC), the ISO member body for Canada and sponsor of the Canadian National Committee of the IEC. Also, as a member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Canada participates in the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (ITU-T).
At the time of publication, ISO/IEC 14776-362:2006 is available from ISO and IEC in English only. CSA will publish the French version when it becomes available from ISO and IEC.
This International Standard was reviewed by the CSA TCIT under the jurisdiction of the Strategic Steering Committee on Information Technology and deemed acceptable for use in Canada. From time to time, ISO/IEC may publish addenda, corrigenda, etc. The CSA TCIT will review these documents for approval and publication. For a listing, refer to the CSA Information Products catalogue or CSA Info Update or contact a CSA Sales representative. This Standard has been formally approved, without modification, by the Technical Committee and has been approved as a National Standard of Canada by the Standards Council of Canada.
Scope
This part of ISO/IEC 14776 defines the SCSI command set extensions to access multimedia features for all classes of SCSI devices.
The commands specified within this standard define standard access and control of those features of the device that are used in multimedia applications.
The SPC command set and its extensions are transport independent and may be implemented across a wide variety of environments for which a SCSI command mapping and delivery vehicle has been defined. To date, these include Fibre Channel, SCSI Parallel Interface, High Performance Serial Bus, Serial Storage Architecture and ATA/ATAPI.
This command set gives and/or enables the following.
a) A definition of the command formats and functions independently of delivery, protocol/signalling or transport mechanism. Architectural constraints regarding command functions, over the various transports are addressed in the document specific to the physical transport.
b) Standardized access to common Features of SCSI devices employed in multimedia applications.
c) System software/firmware independence across device classes. Thus, different tape drives, optical media drives and other devices can be added to the system without requiring modifications to generic system hardware and software. Provision is made for the addition of special Features and functions through the use of vendor-specific options. Reserved Opcodes are provided for future standardization.
d) Provides compatibility such a way that properly conforming ISO/IEC 9316 devices may inter-operate with subsequent devices provided that the system engineering is correctly done. SCSI protocol extensions are designed to be permissive of rejections by conforming ISO/IEC 9316 devices and thus allow the ISO/IEC 9316 device to continue operation without requiring the use of the extension.
