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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Tom,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Thanks for volunteering to submit this patch while Intel is wrapping up the namespace management patch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">All Reviewers,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Please provide feedback on HGST’s patch by
</span><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:red">October 21<sup>st</sup>, 2015</span></u></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Intel Clear",sans-serif;color:#44546A">Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Thomas Freeman [mailto:thomas.freeman@hgst.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 07, 2015 12:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Robles, Raymond C<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Changes for SNTL 1.5 and SCSI Persistent Reserve In/Out<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">This patch includes changes to support SNTL version 1.5, SCSI Persistent Reserve In/Out and a variety of small fixes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The following tests were successfully run on Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">1 hour sdstress, 1 hour IOMETER, Quick and Slow format - MBR and GPT, Microsoft Scsi Compliance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The above tests were run with an NVMe 1.1a compliant device that does not support NVMe Reservations.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Testing variations of Unit SN VPD page/Device ID Data Page (requiring V1.0 or NGUID support) and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">SCSI Persistent Reserve In/Out, required setting breakpoints to manually alter the required Identify<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">data. At that point individual SCSI commands were issued and the driver's response (NVMe commands
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">issued and data returned) was manually verified.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The attached file, SNTL15ResInOut.zip, contains a Patch file, a copy of the source code and a Log file detailing the changes made.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">The password for the file is “nvmehgst”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Tom Freeman</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Software Engineer, Device Manager and Driver Development</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">HGST, a Western Digital company</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:90%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:90%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext"><a href="mailto:thomas.freeman@hgst.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">thomas.freeman@hgst.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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