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Sierra M122 SAS/SATA Protocol Analyzer User Manual
Protocol Errors
Double‐click Protocol Errors to open the Protocol Errors selection dialog.
Figure 2.21: SAS: Protocol Errors Dialog
SAS vs. SATA: SATA dialog does not show ACK/NAK Timeout and has FIS signal‐latency and
state‐transition errors, not STP ones. SATA dialog does not show ALL. SSP and SMP radio
buttons.
Check protocol error(s) to omit or not capture, then click OK.
Protocol Errors
SMP Response Time Limit: is outside the specification requirements.
Code Violation: Wrong 10b symbol detected.
Disparity Error: Wrong disparity detected.
ALIGN Error: ALIGN primitive frequency is outside the specification requirements.
STP Signaling Latency Error [SAS only] or FIS Signaling Latency Error [SATA only]:
DWORD difference between HOLD and HOLDA is greater than entered value in the HOLD/
HOLDA Response Timeout field.