RE: iscsi : default iscsi mode page settings - Consensus call

[Robert Snively <rsnively@Brocade.COM>]

I object.

SCSI knows how to handle these.  These are 
properties of LUs and have nothing to do with
the transport mechanism itself.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Black_David@emc.com [mailto:Black_David@emc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:00 PM
> To: Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com
> Cc: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: iscsi : default iscsi mode page settings - Consensus call
> 
> 
> My reading of this mail thread is that there is rough consensus
> to negotiate/set FirstBurstSize and MaxBurstSize via iSCSI
> login/text keys and only via such keys.  If some aspect of the
> SCSI protocol requires that they be readable via a mode page,
> the mode page values will be read-only.  Julian's objection to
> this is noted - anyone else who objects to this should post to
> the list.
> 
> Thanks,
> --David
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