To: Steve Sicola
From: Glenn Everhart
Re: Controller allocation class in HSZ INQUIRY data
Date: 11-March-1997

Steve -

In order to provide naming uniqueness for HSZ devices with shared
paths, we would like to have an allocation class return from the
device controllers themselves, which can be set by the customer. The range
0-255 is adequate for this allocation class, where we can take 0
to mean none is needed.

However for possible future use, it would be preferable to have a longword
and reserve the two high bytes. We could then have firmware check for
range 0-65535, but document that people should use 0-255.

It should be returned somewhere in the INQUIRY data for the HSZ.
Makes no difference to us where, just so we know and so it is constant.


Thank you.