Chapter 2. Direct-Attached Storage
Storage systems were first developed for mainframe computers, and most were proprietary. Standards such as SCSI were developed to work with the minicomputer. With the advent of the PC, server standards such as SCSI and IDE started to flourish.
This chapter describes direct-attached storage ”that is, storage devices directly connected to a Windows NT server. Chapter 1 described the Windows NT storage I/O stack in detail. This chapter explains developments in the Windows NT storage I/O stack designed to improve the handling of newer Fibre Channel and SCSI devices that appear to the Windows NT server as direct-attached devices.
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Inside Windows Storage: Server Storage Technologies for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 and Beyond
ISBN: 032112698X
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 111
Pages: 111
Authors: Dilip C. Naik