SPC-4 r04a posted with all editorial changes

[Joe Breher]

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I thought I sent this to the reflector yesterday, but I never saw it as
incoming. Apologies if this is a repost.
Joe Breher
Storage Architecture Technologist
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On May 27, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Joe Breher
<Joe.Breher at hgst.com> wrote:
Wow. Harvey's got some sharp eyes. It took me some time to find some of the
changes even when directed there by the change bars. I still can't see what
changed in tables 411, 414, 503.
I do think the following may be worthy of discussion:
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 3.1.66 media changer
device that mechanizes the movement of volumes to and from the SCSI device
that records on or reads from
the media
Note 1 to entry: See SMC-3.
The term 'records' seems at odds with 'reads'. Should 'records on' be
replaced with 'writes to'?
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 3.1.73 nonvolatile cache memory
cache memory (see 3.1.14) that retains data through any power cycle
Was the dehyphenation of nonvolatile the result of discussion?
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3.2.3 - adding symbol for 'not equal to', but we don't seem to employ this
symbol anywhere in the doc.
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While the above seem editorial, I believe the following may have introduced a
technical bug:
6.4.6.8:
For descriptor type code 0Fh 06h (i.e., stream->discard&application client)
the removed data shall be held for delivery to the application client upon
completion of the copy operation (see 5.16.4.3) originated by the EXTENDED
COPY command as described in 5.16.4.5.
Seems to argue against the following table in 6.4.6.1:
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...from the standpoint of the Descriptor type code assigned to the descriptor
type Named stream->discard&application client.
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Joe Breher
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On May 27, 2015, at 4:42 AM, Ralph Weber
<Ralph.Weber at wdc.com> wrote:
A document editor from another specification development organization sent a
large collection of comments regarding the content of SPC-5.
Despite the fact that the SPC text has survived a T10 Letter Ballot, Public
Review, and review by the ANSI Editor with all this work having been
completed within the last 18 months, about 120 real, editorial issues were
identified.
These have been corrected in SPC-5 r04a
http://www.t10.org/cgi-bin/ac.pl?t=f&f=spc5r04a.pdf
All the best,
.Ralph