Subject: Question for phy event counters 
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:16:01 -0400
From: "Lau, Victor" <victor.lau@intel.com>
To: <t10@t10.org>
Cc: "Lau, Victor" <victor.lau@intel.com>,
   "Seto, Pak-lung" <pak-lung.seto@intel.com>
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In sas2r04 spec page 103, it states the following events should use the
saturating counters
Phys shall count the following events using saturating counters and
report them in the Protocol-Specific Port
log page (see 10.2.8.1) and/or the SMP REPORT PHY ERROR LOG function
(see 10.4.3.6):
a) invalid dwords received;
b) dwords received with running disparity errors;
c) loss of dword synchronization; and
d) phy reset problems.
However, on p.104, table 24, these 4-events are using counter type
"wrapping counter"
Thus, which type of counter we should use?
Thx
Victor