Re: building SCSI CDB over FC

[Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:03:16PM -0700, shankar krishna wrote:
> Sumit:
> You are correct. I sent the
> following command to send the
> CDB. It did send correctly.
> 
> if (ioctl(sd_fd,SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND,&cdb_buf))
> {
> /* ERROR */
> }
> 
> where cdb_buf is of type Scsi_Ioctl_Command.
> 
> DGilbert:
> "
> Notes:
> The SCSI command length is determined by examining the 1st byte of the 
> given command [1] . There is no way to override this.
> "
> 
> The above claim that 1st octet should be the length
> of CDB is not true...In the analyser I could see
> that "if I sent the length of CDB it is sending
> it as OPCODE" which essentially is the first byte.
> 
> You may want to correct it in the
> document(www.torque.net/sg) that you
> told me. It was very useful.

I believe you are mis-interpreting the documentation.  The first byte of 
the command is the opcode, and with scsi_ioctl_send_command the code reads 
the opcode and looks it up in a table to determine the length of the scsi 
command, and that length is the length that can't be over-ridden.

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