SAS-2 added a time limit for SMP request completion of 1900us (see sas2r14 7.18.1).

Would anyone care to comment regarding expected behavior when a SAS-2 SMP initiator is connected to a SAS-1.1 compliant SMP target that does not adhere to this time limit?

R. Chris Fore
Senior Engineer
RAID Engineering

NetApp
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