This article is from the storage FAQ part2, by Rodney D. Van Meter with numerous contributions by others.
IBM's new offering in the serial device interface sweepstakes. Some docs and tentative working standards available on the SCSI ftp site: ftp.symbios.com:pub/standards/io/ssa (ftp://ftp.symbios.com/pub/standards/io/ssa) The SSA Industry Association has a web server at http://www.ssaia.org. Disk drives from Conner and Micropolis, and Pathlight and Adaptec and expected to do host adapters.
 
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