Subject: RE: Arbitration Wait Time
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 13:30:25 -0600
From: "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <Elliott@hp.com>
To: <t10@t10.org>
X-Message-Number: 7526
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-t10@t10.org [mailto:owner-t10@t10.org] On Behalf 
> Of Dennis Moore
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:39 AM
> To: t10@t10.org
> Subject: SAS: Arbitration Wait Time
> 
> * From the T10 Reflector (t10@t10.org), posted by:
> * Dennis Moore <dmoore@ix.netcom.com>
> *
> Should the Arbitration Wait Time in the Open Address frame be 
> incremented in the expanders while the ECM is arbitrating for 
> the path? 
> Or is it only incremented by the source of the Open?
> 
Each expander is supposed to increment AWT while holding on to
the connection request.  If it goes right through in 20-30 dwords,
the value won't change; if it waits on a connection for a long
time, it will.
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Rob Elliott, elliott@hp.com
Hewlett-Packard Industry Standard Server Storage Advanced Technology
https://ecardfile.com/id/RobElliott