SAS Fill Byte Rules

Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) Elliott at hp.com
Wed Sep 11 13:51:52 PDT 2002


* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
* "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <Elliott at hp.com>
*
Everyone agrees that's the intent, although the text of SAS doesn't say that (it should have in the initial release).

02-318 proposes the changes to fix it, and is being revised again for an upcoming conference call.  (it didn't pass this week)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Noeldner [mailto:daven at lsil.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:09 PM
> To: T10 Reflector
> Subject: SAS Fill Byte Rules
> 
> 
> * From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
> * Dave Noeldner <daven at lsil.com>
> *
> Hi,
> 
> I thought I remembered that the working group had decided on the rules
> for fill bytes and voted to include those in the SAS 
> standard.  However,
> I cannot find them in the latest SAS draft.  Can someone 
> please point me
> to where they are in the draft if they are included?  If they are not
> included in the draft, can someone tell me if my interpretation is
> correct?
> 
> I thought that fill bytes were not allowed for any frame unless it was
> the last frame of the command sequence.  For data frames this 
> would mean
> all frames had to be multiples of 4 bytes until the last data frame of
> the command.  The frame sizes could vary on any frame, but 
> they could not
> use fill bytes until the last frame.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
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