James Bottomley wrote: > Erm, as I read the MSA30 documentation, it has fourteen drive bays. > That means it has 14 targets plus the processor, so since 16 is the > addressing capacity of a wide SPI bus, there doesn't seem to be a need > to have the initiator and the processor at the same ID ... what's the > reason they have to be? Probably for the same reason one cuts the end of a pot roast off before cooking it. Because mom did it that way, who did it that way because grandma did it that way, and turns out grandma did it that way only because her pan wasn't big enough. MSA30's grandma was an old narrow scsi Proliant jbod that only had 8 IDs to work with -- pan not big enough. I'm just guessing though. It is what it is. -- steve - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
