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.