Unit Attention and Reservation Conflict

sgaskill at qntm.com sgaskill at qntm.com
Thu Oct 5 10:58:13 PDT 1995


Based on section 7.9 in SCSI-2 rev 10K (second half of section) it is unclear as
to what action the target should take in the following situation.

1. Target has a pending Unit Attention condition for all initiators.
2. Initiator A selects the target, gets the Unit Attn, and then creates a 
"normal" reservation (not 3rd party, not "persistent").
3. Initiator B issues a Test Unit Ready to the target and gets the Reservation 
Conflict (higher priority status as noted in 7.9).
4. Initiator A releases the reservation.
5. Initiator B issues another Test Unit Ready to the target.

Q: Will Initiator B get a Unit Attention OR should the UA condition have been 
cleared by the TUR which resulted in a reservation conflict?

Alternate question:  What do most peripherals do in this situation?

Thanks very much for the help.

  Steve Gaskill
  Quantum Corp




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