FW: FW: Question about the Ignore Wide Residue message

[Jeff Williams]

Date:    06 Jun 94 14:58:00 BST


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>      2. In what commands does the target send this message to the 
>      initiator?  


The only time that an IWR message is needed is when an initiator requests
the truncation of data at an odd boundary.  For example, a Request Sense
command with an allocation length of 13 bytes.  We have decided that we
will never send an IWR since it is pretty much useless.  In the case 
above, we would send 14 *valid* sense data bytes without the IWR.  So if
the initiator was expecting, and counting on, only 13 bytes but got 14 
since there was no IWR, there would be problems.  Otherwise, everything 
works fine.

Also, there are no cases I can think of where an allocation length of
0xff would be truncated by the target at an odd boundary.  All commands
return an even amount of data unless specifically told to truncate.

Regards,
Jeff
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