SCSI Architectural Model Subsystem

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This overview describes the interface between a SCSI Architectural Model (SAM) device driver and a SAM adapter device driver. SAM is a set of multiple physical transport types, all of which make use of the SCSI command set.

You can use the following physical transport types in SAM:

Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP)
iSCSI
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)

For information about the traditional parallel bus implementation of SCSI, see Small Computer System Interface Subsystem (Parallel SCSI).

The SAM subsystem is directed toward those wishing to design and write a SAM storage device driver that interfaces with an existing SAM adapter device driver. It is also meant for those wishing to design and write a SAM adapter device driver that interfaces with existing SAM storage device drivers.