Appendix E. Other references

The primary site for SCSI information, standards (draft and emerging) and related reseources is www.t10.org.

The most recent news on the sg driver can be found at: www.torque.net/sg .

Some notes on the sg v3 driver can be found at: www.torque.net/sg/s_packet.html . For some timings (and CPU utilizations) comparisons between direct and indirect IO see: www.torque.net/sg/rbuf_tbl.html

The Linux Documentation Project's SCSI-2.4-HOWTO may help to put this driver into perspective: www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO . The most recent version of that document can be found at www.torque.net/scsi/SCSI-2.4-HOWTO .

To understand the inner workings of device drivers there is a fine book called "Linux Device Drivers", second edition by Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet published by O'Reilly [ISBN 0-596-00008-1]. The authors and the publisher have unselfishly made this book available under the GNU Free Documentation License (version 1.1). It can be found in html at www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/chapter/book .