The next plugfest is scheduled will be June 16 - 20, 2008, at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory in Durham, New Hampshire. If you are interested in participating, please email STA Plugfest Committee Chair, Mike Fitzpatrick (mfitzpatrick@us.fujitsu.com). Here are the highlights of the program:
- 16 companies participated in the first SAS plugfest, including the industries' leading disk drive, controller, test equipment, cable, connector, and system suppliers
- Benefits to Plugfest participants include:
- Test for SCSI backward compatibility
- Multi-vendor Interoperability
- Build confidence in SAS designs
- SATA compatibility
- SAS Plugfests are not a certification or validation program
This is an opportunity for testing your SATA product's interoperability in a SAS environment. Users will want to plug their SATA products with SAS products once the SAS infrastructure is deployed. SATA Test Days are designed to help ease that process and make your customers' experience a positive one.
NOTE: This is not a SATA compliance test.
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- Define test equipment, cable and connector requirements
- Build test configurations
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- Main focus initiator & target devices
- Expander testing on ad hoc basis
- PHY Tests
- OOB
- Speed negotiation
- Identify frames
- Spin up
- SATA initialization
- Cables
- Backplanes
- Rate matching
- Hot plug - basic
- Application layer testing - requires mini-port driver
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- Initiator, target & expander devices
- Dual port tests
- Domain discovery for complex topologies
- Multiple initiators discovery process
- Hot-plug dynamic reconfiguration
- Rate matching with expanders
- STP
- SMP
- Wide port testing
- Multi-port expander testing
- Linux/Unix compatibility
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- Error conditions
- Exception conditions handling
- OOB Margining
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A committee of the STA membership developed a set of
administrative
plans and policies to guide the event for both STA members and
non-members.
- STA membership is not required to participate
- STA will collect fees and pay UNH-IOL per agreement to support the
events (program is intended to be self-funding)
- STA Sponsor Members pay $1,500 per event
- STA Principal Members pay $2,000 per event
- STA Promotional Members pay $2,500 per event
- Non-members pay $3,500 per event
- The execution of a
plugfest nondisclosure agreement for each event.
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STA Plugfest Registration Form
University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory is starting a Serial Attached SCSI Consortium. While this is not endorsed or sponsored by the SCSI Trade Association, we would like to make the information on such available to anyone who would like to participate in this. Please go to http://www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/sas/ to find out full details on how to participate. Contact David Woolf (djwoolf@iol.unh.edu) with any questions or if you would like to get involved.
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