From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: initiator+target port attributes by transport: sam4r13 Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:03:13 -0400 Message-ID: <46FD8831.7070207@torque.net> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:33183 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753182AbXI1XDW (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:03:22 -0400 Received: from ip-40.58.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.58.40] helo=rink.bingwo.ca) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1IbOrh-0001Xh-K7 for linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:03:21 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org A new draft of SAM-4 was released yesterday and Annex B has been added. It tabulates various attributes (e.g. maximums) for 5 modern SCSI transports. [SPI has dropped out of both Annex A and B.] See: http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/sam4/sam4r13.pdf That should be a useful design tool. Strangely iSCSI supports cdb lengths of 65550 bytes! Doug Gilbert