MMC2 Meeting Minutes
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Doc. No.: T10/98-242r0
Date: November 9, 1998
To: T10 Membership
From: Ron Roberts
Subject: MMC2 Working Group Minutes November 3 & 4, 1998
Palm Springs, CA
Approved Agenda:
1.0 Opening Remarks
2.0 Introductions
3.0 Document Distribution
4.0 Call for Patents
5.0 Approval of Agenda
6.0 Meeting Agenda
6.1 - Letter Ballot Comment Resolution
6.2 - Review of Annexes
7.0 New Business
8.0 Review of Action Items
9.0 Future Meeting Schedule
10.0 Adjournment
Meeting Notes;
1.0 Opening Remarks
The meeting was called to order at 9:20 AM on November 3, 1998.
As usual the chair thanked Adaptec and Larry Lamers for hosting the meetings
at this location. The standard initial statements were made as follows;
This meeting has been authorized by NCITS T10 and will be conducted under
the NCITS rules. Ad hoc meetings take no final actions, but prepare
recommendations
for approval by the NCITS task group.
The voting rules for the meeting are those of the parent committee, NCITS T10.
For the
ad hoc, other than straw votes, the voting rules are: one vote per
participating company.
The minutes of this meeting will be posted to the Symbios T10 BBS, the SCSI
Reflector,
the MMC Reflector, and will be included in the next T10 committee mailing.
2.0 Introductions and Attendance
Attendance at a working group meeting does not count toward minimum attendance
requirements for T10 membership. Working group meetings are open to any
person or
company to attend and to express their opinion on the subjects being
discussed.
Those in attendance are listed here:
Name Company E-mail Address
Ron Roberts Apple Computer rkroberts at aol.com
J. R. Sims Hewlett Packard Co. Robsims at hootie.lvld.hp.com
Tim Bradshaw Iomega Corp Bradshat at iomega.com
John Hoy Toshiba America John.hoy at aitc.toshiba.com
Han Zou Panasonic Technologies, Inc. Hanzou at research.panasonic.com
Frank Banul Texas Instruments F_banul at ti.com
3.0 Document Distribution
Electronic copies of Rev 8 were made available. MMC2R08 PDF was available on
the Symbios ftp site. Hard copies of the letter ballot comments were
distributed.
available.
4.0 Call for Patents
The usual call for patents was made
5.0 Approval of Agenda - Agenda was approved as modified.
6.0 Meeting Agenda
6.1 - Letter Ballot Comment Resolution
The majority of the letter ballot comments were editorial in nature and were
accepted
and modified in the document. See document T10/98-223R1 for detailed
responses.
The NO votes on the document were addressed and comments drafted:
ANNEX C missing/not included. - Annex C is an implementation Annex like
Annex B.
The majority of Annex C will come from the RBC command set document that is
still in
review. A version of the Annex C will be distributed for review when RBC and
SBP-2
working groups have reviewed it.
PREVENT/ALLOW Command and persistent bit definition - A new proposal, from the
SCSI-3 working group, to include the definition in SPC-2 of the persistent
bit. This proposal
should be available in the minutes of the SPC2 working group session
An Annex for SCSI-3 implementation notes should be added - Because of the
questions
on Resets and how they function there is need for an Annex to define these
operations.
The annex is being written and will be included in forth coming revisions.
7.0 New Business - No new business was submitted.
8.0 Review of Action Items - The only action item is for the editor to
issue another
Revision (9) and a letter ballot resolution document in the next mailing.
9.0 Future Meeting Schedule
Working Group meetings:
Nov 30 - Dec 2, 1998 Irvine, CA Location to be posted.
Jan 25 - Jan 27, 1999 Monterey, CA Location to be posted.
Mar 9 - Mar 10, 1999 Harrisburg, PA Location to be posted.
10.0 Adjournment - Adjourned the meeting at 4:30PM on November 4, 1998.
Any Questions please contact:
Ron Roberts SIERRA-Pac Technology
PO Box 2389
Shingle Springs, CA 95682
Ph 530-677-5714 Fax 530 677-1218 E-mail: rkroberts at aol.com
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