Unit attention and SAM

Gene Milligan Gene_Milligan at notes.seagate.com
Thu Jul 14 09:57:59 PDT 1994


Thomas Wicklund wrote:
>Is there some sort of limitation on the number of initiators a device
>can talk to between power cycles or other method to limit this?  Or
>are SCSI-3 devices required to keep per-initiator unit attention
>status for all possible devices?
 
 The issue you raised, is of course not limited to a Unit attention.
Configurations on a per initiator basis would imply an even more heroic memory.
However there is a very practical answer.
 
 Ultimately the number of initiators supported is not determined by the
theoretical maximum but by the combination of the number the implementer
chooses to support and by the actual transport chosen for the design. In the
case of the most unlimited transport, Fibre Channel, the login process limits
the number to that the implementer chose.
 
Gene Milligan
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