descriptor use in RAID internal devices
Doug, dtn 237-2145 Flames to NL: 23-Feb-1994 1451
hagerman at starch.enet.dec.com
Wed Feb 23 11:56:20 PST 1994
Hi Gerry.
I'll make your suggested change in the next revision. Note that we
have decided not to define a bunch of new SCSI device types, but will
handle these special subsystem-only cases by a method similar to
that already in use for RAID volumes. Thanks for looking over the
various RAID proposals; any comments are always welcome.
Doug Hagerman
Digital Equipment
>_From: Gerry Houlder at SEAGATE
>Subj: review of 94-025
>
>[The draft] Additional Device Models document has a section on console
>devices (section 4).
>I have a comment about the same item in sections 4.2.3 (READ ASCII command),
>4.2.4 (Write ASCII command), 4.2.5 (Read Bits command), and 4.2.6 (Write Bits
>command).
>
>All of these commands return a descriptor that includes a "descriptor length".
>The text in each case says "the descriptor length value includes the length
>byte itself". It would be more consistent with other SCSI commands that have a
>descriptor length field in a descriptor (e.g. MODE SENSE, INQUIRY, REQUEST
>SENSE, REASSIGN BLOCKS commands) to have the descriptor length value "indicate
>the number of additional bytes available". This doesn't include the length
>field itself, or any fields prior the the length field.
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