Reg: Modifications to "Request Sense" command

Ralph O. Weber roweber at IEEE.org
Fri Dec 26 03:22:57 PST 2003


* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
* "Ralph O. Weber" <roweber at ieee.org>
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Are you talking about the case where REQUEST SENSE
is used to poll the progress of a long-running
command?

.Ralph

Sarnath Kannan wrote:

>* From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
>* "Sarnath Kannan" <stellium_79 at hotmail.com>
>*
>Hi,
>
>Ref: SPC (SCSI Primary Commands)
>
>I have a small suggestion on the way sense-data is handled by targets.
>
>If REQUEST_SENSE had the ability to point out which task's sense-data is 
>needed then lot of trouble could have been eliminated. The REQ_SENSE CDB 
>needs to carry only an additional TAG for this purpose. If this is 
>implemented by SCSI targets, CA, ACA etc are not required.
>
>This feature could optionally be supported by future SCSI targets. 
>(reflected in one of the mode pages.)
>
>Sincerely,
>Sarnath
>
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