On Thu, 26 Jul 2012, Mouse wrote: > > it's usual for the SCSI HBA to assign a targetID for itself. > > For real SCSI - ie, non-SAS - it's actually necessary; the protocols > used for initiators and targets to speak with one another require a > line for the initiator as well as for the target. But the host is > usually ID 7.
ISTR SPARC machines used an initiator address 6 for hysterical reasons. I forget why. > Perhaps this is a SAS difference? SAS doesn't use target IDs on the wire. The "target ID" is something LSI came up with to provide backwards compatibilty with parallel SCSI. Eduardo
