RE: iSCSI Boot: Technical Issues

[Black_David@emc.com]

> Q: is xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx supposed to be _just_ as
> SAM-3 stipulates? (rhetorical question)
> 
> If so, then ``within each group of 4 hexacedimal digits
> zeros are filled to the right, and groups of zeros
> are filled to the left'' might be a wiser stipulation.
> 
> This ``right/left'' rule will be easy on the average user's
> (the luser :-)) brain not to strain too much to understand
> what it is (LUN) and that the good old '4' still
> works just as the newer '801F-0000-...'.

Clearer desciption of the same idea - it's four 16-bit hex
numbers separated by dashes, if there are less than four
numbers, the missing numbers are on the right and are all zero.

Thanks,
--David
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