RE: Data in SCSI Response or SCSI Data

["Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net>]

Julo,

After painfully understanding your status here not there conversation and
being ensured Autosense is now a fact of life, rather than placing status
within a READ PDU, perhaps you should consider simply revising the
definition of the flags and use a common DATA PDU.  Change the Status bit to
indicate Error Detected and perhaps add a bit to signal End of Exchange.
From End of Exchange you could deduce Good Status.  I see little benefit in
status presented twice or dummy status sent with partial exchanges.  It only
seems to make room for conflicts.  (The two values not agreeing, I, on the
other hand, will never agree.)  At what point would the O, and U flags be
valid?  Would this be a result of an error?  If so, perhap these flags could
be left to response PDU.

Doug