Re: SAS scsibus target numbering

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Eduardo Horvath wrote:

> 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.

Likewise for some early models of DECstation (2100 and 3100?).  I never
understood why.

Cheers,
Simon.