Re: Initiator-detected format or digest errors

[Matt Wakeley <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>]

Why not send a reject back to the originator of the bad frame, and just let
the task time out?

-Matt

julian_satran@il.ibm.com wrote:
> 
> Tom,
> 
> An initiator will pass the appropriate response to the SCSI layer and will
> abort the task if it can identify one.  Further behavior of initiators and
> targets is implementation dependent.
> 
> 6.2 specifies this.
> 
> Julo
> 
> "Thomas McSweeney" <rf42tpme@us.ibm.com> on 04/04/2001 13:57:20
> 
> Please respond to "Thomas McSweeney" <rf42tpme@us.ibm.com>
> 
> To:   ips@ece.cmu.edu
> cc:
> Subject:  Initiator-detected format or digest errors
> 
> Section "2.20 Reject" talks about the target receiving a bad frame and
> sending Reject.  What should an Initiator do if it receives a PDU with a
> format or digest error?  Should it send Reject?  If so, we'll need to
> ensure that the Initiator fields of the MIB include an object to count
> Reject commands transmitted.
> 
> Tom McSweeney
> iSCSI Development, Storage Systems Group, IBM
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