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Reviews by Amanda Staab THE BOOK OF SCSI: I/O for the New Millennium Paperback w/CD-ROM, No Starch Press, May 2000 $49.95 Click for Discount SCSI systems are powerful and necessary to users who require expandability and a high rate of data transfer, but they can be difficult to work with. This thoroughly updated and expanded second edition of THE BOOK OF SCSI: I/O for the New Millennium provides down-to-earth and in-depth instructions for installing, implementing, utilizing, and maintaining SCSI on a PC. __ "Whether you already have SCSI on your PC or are contemplating adding it, this book is definitely worth reading." - from the foreword by JOHN LOHMEYER, Chairman of the T10 Technical Committee __ With over 25,000 copies sold since 1995, THE BOOK OF SCSI is a trusted source of complete, reliable, and easy-to-understand information for everyone from experienced users to beginners. PC Magazine applauded the first edition: "[Written in] a simple, readable style that can be easily understood by the nontechnical reader . . . A must-buy for everyone who wrestles with this touchiest of technologies." __ This newly updated edition explains the basics of installing and using SCSI and how to work with SCSI IDs, LUNs, termination, parity checking, asynchronous and synchronous transfer, bus mastering, caching, Ultra2/LVS, RAID, and much more. Clear drawings, diagrams, pinout tables, troubleshooting tips and tricks, an extensive glossary and a comprehensive index make this book an indispensable reference. This edition also includes new or expanded coverage of: * SCSI 3 with a revised, more in-depth explanation of SCSI * Performance tuning for the SCSI subsystem * Device drivers * New directions in the SCSI and storage industry And for the first time, this edition includes a CD-ROM with SCSI diagnostic tools and utilities and ASPI programming examples, as well as a searchable copy of the book for quick referencing. No Starch Press San Francisco, CA 94107 http://www.nostarch.com fax: 415-863-9950 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gary Field has worked with device level software since 1978. In 1985, while at Wang laboratories, he was involved with SCSI on MSDOS platforms, and later led the development of an ANSI CAM subsystem for several UNIX platforms. He has maintained the Usenet comp.periphs.scsi FAQ list since 1994. In 1996, Gary joined Digital Equipment Corp. (now Compaq Corp.) as a principal software engineer in their UNIX I/O development group. Other Reviews by Amanda