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In 15.4.8.1 of ata7v3r3c, regarding HOLD usage by the frame receiver, the frame receiver must accept 20 more dwords after sending HOLD and the frame transmitter must send no more than 20 dwords after receiving HOLD. Since wire delay is really not zero, a worst case transmitter (that sends a full 20 dwords) could overrun a worst case receiver (that only has room for 20 dwords) because HOLD really takes some amount of time to make it from one end of the wire to the other. I suggest the frame transmitter be required to cease within 19 dwords to fix the issue. Keep the frame receiver expectation 20 dwords. I doubt any currently shipping frame transmitters take this long to respond to HOLD today, so this shouldn't cause any device to be noncompliant. I would delete this from the sample budget: "A one meter cable contains less than one - half Dword and is therefore rounded to 0." -- Rob Elliott, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hewlett-Packard Industry Standard Server Storage Advanced Technology https://ecardfile.com/id/RobElliott
