Reference Guide

Chapter 1 Introduction
Background Information About SCSI
DLT-S4 Interface Reference Guide 4
Serial Attached SCSI
Characteristics
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The important features of the DLT-S4 SAS implementation include the
following:
• Automatic speed negotiations, with transfer rates of:
• 150 megabytes per second (1.5 Gb/second)
• 300 megabytes per second (3.0 Gb/second).
• SAS-1.1 compliant
• Transport Layer Retries are supported
• The DLT-S4 tape drive is an SSP Target Port
• The DLT-S4 tape drive does not act as an SSP Initiator Port.