HiSupport bit description in Inquiry

Ralph O. Weber roweber at acm.org
Mon Aug 3 04:15:19 PDT 1998


* From the T10 (formerly SCSI) Reflector (t10 at symbios.com), posted by:
* "Ralph O. Weber" <roweber at acm.org>
*
} Bob,
} ... I like your idea of having [HiSupport equals] zero mean
} supports the standard definitions and 1 be the something else
} condition.
}
} Bye for now,
} George Penokie

If you reverse the polarity of the HiSupport bit, a target
that does not implement hierarchical LUNs or the HiSupport
bit, will look exactly like a target that does implement
them as far as the contents of the Inquiry data is concerned.
Initiators will have no way to detect which is which.

Ralph...



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