sas1r03 Annex H.16 Errors & Clarifications (re-post)
Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
elliott at hp.com
Sat Mar 13 16:35:27 PST 2004
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The labels are wrong - they should be phy X and Y. Also, figure H.15 is
incorrectly the same as figure H.14. These will be fixed in sas1r04.
--
Rob Elliott, elliott at hp.com
Hewlett-Packard Industry Standard Server Storage Advanced Technology
https://ecardfile.com/id/RobElliott
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> * From the T10 Reflector (t10 at t10.org), posted by:
> * Gil Romo <gil.romo at qlogic.com>
> *
>
> 1) It looks like Figure H.16 was copied and pasted from
> another figure but does
> not portray an accurate example for this situation.
> Specifically, an STP Target
> port (phy W) would not forward an OPEN address frame to an
> STP Host Port (phy
> Z). References to STP/SATA bridge should be removed.
>
> 2) Given phys W and Z are external expander phys, an OPEN
> address frame received
> message will be passed along with the transitions XL1 to XL5
> and XL5 to XL6.
> Thus the incoming and outgoing OPEN address frames will be
> compared. As is
> evident in the absence of a backoff retry or backoff reverse
> response in the
> figure, the OPEN address frame received by phy Z has a lower
> arbitration
> priority. Therefore, I propose an alternate description of
> this figure, as
> follows:
>
> "In Figure H.16, phy Z has received an OPEN address frame
> just before receiving
> a Transmit Open indication. In this scenario, the OPEN
> address frame received
> by phy Z has lower arbitration priority."
>
> 3) Wouldn't this clause be better placed following H.7?
>
>
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> Gilbert Romo
> Circuits & Integration
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