Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:09:27 -0400 | From | Luben Tuikov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.13 5/14] sas-class: sas_discover.c Discover process (end devices) |
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On 09/12/05 12:45, Patrick Mansfield wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:57:21AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > >>be free to increase it if necessary. Note: you do actually need either >>an array with more than two levels of nesting actually to need the >>increase and no-one actually seems to have one of these yet. > > > That is not correct, I posted before on this, the address method is in the > high bits of the 8 byte LUN and tells how to "interpret" the LUN value. > You can't convert from an int to 8 byte LUN (without any other > information) and set these bits. See SAM-4 in (or near) section 4.9.7. > > So some storage devices that want to use addressing methods other than 00b > don't because we do not have 8 byte LUN support in linux, and then we have > other problems because of this.
All true.
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