SSC-4: Programmable Early Warning question

Ballard, Curtis C (StorageWorks) curtis.ballard at hp.com
Thu Oct 1 15:21:49 PDT 2009


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In the interest of having a complete specification it would be appropriate to
specify behavior although I would hope that an application would never make
that mistake.
Rather than reject the command I would be inclined to have a device specific
maximum PEWS zone and report a recovered error with the PEWS zone set to the
maximum allowed.
Curtis Ballard
Hewlett Packard
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From: owner-t10 at t10.org [mailto:owner-t10 at t10.org] On Behalf Of Kevin D Butt
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Subject: SSC-4: Programmable Early Warning question
Tapeheads,
I wonder if we should protect the programmable early warning from being set
to too large a value.  Should we add some statement like the following to
SSC-4?
If PEWS field of Device Configuration Extension mode page is set to a value
larger than the tapes capacity, then the Mode Select should be rejected with
ILLEGAL REQUEST, INVALID FIELD IN PARAMETER LIST.
Thanks,
Kevin D. Butt
SCSI & Fibre Channel Architect, Tape Firmware
MS 6TYA, 9000 S. Rita Rd., Tucson, AZ 85744
Tel: 520-799-5280
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Email address: kdbutt at us.ibm.com
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