FW: FW: Question about the Ignore Wide Residue message

[Jeff Williams]

Date:    Wed, 08 Jun 94 10:36:22 MDT


> Jeff Williams writes:

>  > 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.

> The last part of sense data is vendor unique and may be an odd length.
> Vendor unique mode pages may be odd lengths.  The same is true of
> inquiry VPD pages.  There is no requirement that data lengths be an
> even value (or a multiple of 4 for 32 bit wide SCSI).  IWR is required
> if the target implements those lengths.

Right, IF THE TARGET IMPLEMENTS THOSE LENGTHS....


Regards,
Jeff
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