Re: [PATCH 04/33] target: Fix BYTCHK=0 handling for VERIFY and WRITE AND VERIFY commands

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On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 16:32 -0600, David Butterfield wrote:
> Since the spec provides the BYTCHK field for WRITE VERIFY and refers to its
> definition in VERIFY, I take that to mean the intention is that BYTCHK=00 be
> treated as with VERIFY; in other words, the VERIFY step ignores TRANSFER
> LENGTH (even though the WRITE step uses it), and the VERIFY step checks
> the protection information based on the VRPROTECT field in the CDB
> (WRPROTECT in the WRITE CDB), as described in the VERIFY section.
> 
> I think the spec is broken here, and this is my plausible
> interpretation of the intent.

Hello Dave,

That's a good point. As far as I know only AIX submits the WRITE AND VERIFY
command. So it would be useful to know what value AIX sets the BYTCHK field
to.

Bart.--
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