SPI-3 technical change

gop at us.ibm.com gop at us.ibm.com
Fri Nov 19 11:18:15 PST 1999


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Gene,
With the current 'shall' wording the target is required to place a zero in
the data length field of the L_Q IU. As a result there is no Status IU
sent. This allows better performance because needless information (i.e., a
bunch of zeros in the Status IU to indicate a good completion) is not
transferred. The problem is; in a few cases, even though status is zero
there may be information that needs to be sent in the Status IU that is
currently not allowed because of the 'shall'. Placing a 'should' at that
point fixes the problem.

Bye for now,
George Penokie

Dept Z9V  114-2 N212
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Gene_Milligan at notes.seagate.com on 11/19/99 11:59:49 AM

To:   George Penokie/Rochester/IBM at IBMUS
cc:   t10 at t10.org
Subject:  Re: SPI-3 technical change




What is the reason for changing "shall" to should"?

Gene





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