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    RE: iSCSI Target Reset



    Hi:
    
    These seem to be implementation decisions. I don't see how that justifies
    removing support from the protocol.
    
    Charles
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: John Hufferd [mailto:hufferd@us.ibm.com]
    > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 2:34 PM
    > To: Santosh Rao
    > Cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu
    > Subject: Re: iSCSI Target Reset
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > Absolutely not,  Why would we think that impacting 32 different other
    > initiators is an OK thing to do.  By the way there are lots 
    > more Initiators
    > possible with FC on Shark, and would hope that there would be 
    > even more
    > with iSCSI.
    > 
    > I have been told that these large Storage Controllers do not 
    > support Target
    > Reset today.  So I see no loss in not supporting such an item in iSCSI
    > especially since many Initiators will be beyond even the distances and
    > mischief that is possible with FC.
    > 
    > .
    > .
    > .
    > John L. Hufferd
    > Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM)
    > IBM/SSG San Jose Ca
    > (408) 256-0403, Tie: 276-0403,  eFax: (408) 904-4688
    > Internet address: hufferd@us.ibm.com
    > 
    > 
    > Santosh Rao <santoshr@cup.hp.com>@ece.cmu.edu on 04/23/2001 
    > 01:24:02 PM
    > 
    > Sent by:  owner-ips@ece.cmu.edu
    > 
    > 
    > To:   ips@ece.cmu.edu
    > cc:
    > Subject:  Re: iSCSI Target Reset
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > "Dillard, David" wrote:
    > >
    > > When will STORPORT be generally available?  The latest 
    > STORPORT document
    > > that I found on the MS web site is version 0.6a, dated 
    > March 18, 2001.
    > > Given this it seems like STORPORT might not be available 
    > soon.  In that
    > case
    > > do you know what happens with the current drivers?  Are we 
    > going to be
    > > telling customers that if they want to use iSCSI and NT 
    > clustering they
    > have
    > > to update to Whistler?
    > 
    > 
    > [One would hope that this list does not turn into a Microsoft
    > release/product discussion mailing list (?) ]
    > 
    > Without going into specifics of A certain O.S., does it suffice to
    > require that iSCSI not break existing legacy SCSI applications ?
    > 
    > If the above is a valid requirement, then, knowing that legacy
    > applications continue to use SCSI-2 Reserve/Release and the 
    > target reset
    > as a mechanism of breaking SCSI-2 reservations, should'nt 
    > iSCSI continue
    > to support the target reset ?
    > 
    > - Santosh
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > 
    


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