SCSI Toolbox :: Newsletter - February 2007
IN THIS EDITION
6.1.1 STB Release currently shipping!
2 for 1 Valentine's Offer still valid through February
New! CDB Sequencer tutorial. (screenshots and training movie)
Ask Dr. SCSI - I'm looking for a hardware SCSI Bus analyzer and no one is selling them anymore... Can you help?
6.1.1 SCSItoolbox Suite Now shipping!
The 6.1.1 Release of the SCSItoolbox Suite is currently shipping to Active Performa customers. If you are interested in receiving this 6.1.1 release please contact Sales.
Read the full 6.1.1 release notes here: http://www.scsitoolbox.com/products/notes/STBNotes.asp?release=6.1.1
If you haven't received your Performa Email (download information) please contact Jeremy Wolfe at jeremyw@scsitoolbox.com or 720.249.2641, please have your STB Serial Number handy.
2 for 1 Valentine's Offer still valid through February
The 2 for 1 Valentine's Offer is still valid through February. For those of you who missed the pretty heart campaign you can still take advantage of this great offer through the end of the month.
New! CDB Sequencer tutorial. (screenshots and training movie)
We've added a new CDB Sequencer tutorial with screenshots available online here: http://www.scsitoolbox.com/products/CDBSequencer.asp additionally we've added a new Training video to show you how to generate CDB's and save/replay the sequences in a repeated fashion. The Training video is available on here: http://www.scsitoolbox.com/Training/Videos/CDBSequencer.wmv
Ask Dr. SCSI - I'm looking for a hardware SCSI Bus analyzer and no one is selling them anymore... Can you help?
Q. I'm looking for a hardware SCSI Bus analyzer and no one is selling them anymore... Can you help?
A. Do you need bus-level analysis? Most targets and initiator code is 100% solid by this time. If you just need to capture trace data and not do precise phase-level inspection our Bus Analyzer Module (BAM) will sure do the job. Because the target and initiator silicon is so solid we probably use BAM 99.9% of the time in house - same thing with our major customers. Even if they have hardware based tools available once they start using BAM they quickly find that they are working more efficiently.
No setup and cabling mess, no special expertise needed, just quick and easy results! We can watch "regular" bus transactions, monitor queued commands at queue depths up to 255, monitor real-time command turn-around time, capture all data and sense data, everything a hardware analyzer can do except tell you how many micro-seconds passed between command and data phase. And like I mentioned, I can't imagine anyone who hasn't had the protocol level of silicon working for years.
