Re: iSCSI: Abort Task Set

["Jim Hafner" <hafner@almaden.ibm.com>]

John,

You've found another place where use of "initiator" is vague.
In this case, however, the meaning is SCSI Initiator Port (as that is the
meaning of "initiator" in SAM-2, where this wording is probably crypted).
Since the SCSI Initiator Port is the endpoint of the session, perhaps your
suggested rewording would be a good clarification.

Jim Hafner


John Hufferd/San Jose/IBM@IBMUS@ece.cmu.edu on 11/23/2001 02:17:55 pm

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To:   Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL, ips@ece.cmu.edu
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Subject:  iSCSI: Abort Task Set



Julian, and List,
The discription of the Abort Task Set Function in 3.5.1 says it:   "aborts
all Tasks issued by this initiator on the Logical Unit."

The question is, what do we mean by initiator, in this case.  Do we mean
iSCSI Initiator Node, or do we mean iSCSI (SCSI) Initiator Port.
Since we could have several different Session between the iSCSI Initiator
Node and the SCSI Target Port, but only one between the SCSI Initiator Port
and an SCSI Target Port.  So if we mean the latter, perhaps we should
change the wordage to: "aborts all Tasks issued via this Session on the
Logical Unit."

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John L. Hufferd
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