Incompatibility between SES-2 r11 and r10?

Kevin_Marks at Dell.com Kevin_Marks at Dell.com
Thu Apr 14 08:38:57 PDT 2005


* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
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Rob,

If we defined bit 4 byte 0 to indicate r11+ format, I would have no
problem changing the INVALID bit back to a VALID.

Kevin


Kevin Marks (Kevin_Marks at dell.com)
Storage Architecture 
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Robert (Server Storage)
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Subject: RE: Incompatibility between SES-2 r11 and r10? 

* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
* "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <elliott at hp.com>
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We could define bit 4 byte 0 set to one means the structure follows the
r11+ format.

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Rob Elliott, HP Server Storage
elliott at hp.com  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-t10 at t10.org [mailto:owner-t10 at t10.org] On Behalf 
> Of Douglas Gilbert
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 4:01 PM
> To: t10 at t10.org
> Cc: Chris_Fore at adaptec.com
> Subject: Re: Incompatibility between SES-2 r11 and r10? 
> 
> * From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
> * Douglas Gilbert <dougg at torque.net>
> *
> Yes, I also noticed major differences in the SES-2
> Additional Element Status diagnostic page between
> r11 and r10.
> 
> Currently there is only one SES-2 version descriptor:
> 3e0h "SES-2 (no version claimed)" [ref: spc3r22a.pdf
> Table D.14]. Perhaps more SES-2 version descriptors
> could be added. of course, version descriptors are futile
> unless target firmware supports them (in the response
> of a standard INQUIRY).
> 
> Another approach would be to use a version field like MMC
> features.
> 
> Doug Gilbert
> 
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