Patent ID: 7343430
Filing Date: 2008-03-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for use in improving data integrity for small computer system interface (SCSI) devices, the method comprising the acts of: identifying, on a SCSI bus at a SCSI device, a SCSI ID of a SCSI initiator device that has won an arbitration; storing the SCSI ID in a register at the SCSI device; identifying, on the SCSI bus at the SCSI device during a selection phase following the arbitration, a SCSI ID of a selected SCSI target device of the SCSI initiator device that won the arbitration; comparing, during the selection phase, the SCSI ID of the selected SCSI target device and a SCSI ID of the SCSI device; performing the following acts by the SCSI device if the SCSI ID of the selected SCSI target device and the SCSI ID of the SCSI device are identified to be the same from the comparing: