
4 T10000: Interface Reference Manual July 2011
Loop Initialization Features ..................................................................................................... 40
Acquiring Addresses .......................................................................................................... 40
Selective Reset ................................................................................................................... 40
Loop Failures ..................................................................................................................... 41
Open Initializing State ........................................................................................................ 41
Loop Initialization Select Master ......................................................................................... 41
Loop Initialization Fabric Assigned Address ..................................................................... 41
Loop Initialization Previously Acquired ............................................................................ 41
Loop Initialization Hard Assigned ..................................................................................... 41
Loop Initialization Soft Assigned ....................................................................................... 41
Loop Initialization Report Position ..................................................................................... 42
Loop Initialization Loop Position ....................................................................................... 42
Failure to Obtain a Loop Address ....................................................................................... 42
Private Loop Initialization Completion ................................................................................ 42
Public Loop Initialization Completion ................................................................................. 42
Fabric F_PORT Attachment Initialization ........................................................................... 43
Tape Drive States ................................................................................................................ 43
Arbitrated Loop Feature Set .................................................................................................... 44
Login_BB_Credit Equals Zero ............................................................................................. 45
Open and Close Latencies ................................................................................................... 45
Common Service Parameters ................................................................................................... 46
FC Class 3 ................................................................................................................................ 48
Class 3 Service Parameters, Port Login ................................................................................ 48
Class 3 Service Parameters, Fabric Login ............................................................................. 50
FC-2 Features .......................................................................................................................... 51
Link Service Commands ......................................................................................................... 52
Basic Commands ................................................................................................................ 52
Extended Commands ......................................................................................................... 53
Responses to Link Services .................................................................................................. 56
Frame Transmission................................................................................................................. 57
Exchange Management ............................................................................................................ 58
Exchange Originator ........................................................................................................... 58
Exchange Responder ........................................................................................................... 59
Sequence Management ............................................................................................................. 59
Sequence Open ................................................................................................................... 60
Sequence Identifier Usage ................................................................................................... 60
Sequence Errors .................................................................................................................. 61
Error Detection and Management ............................................................................................ 61
8B/10B Encoding and Decoding .......................................................................................... 62
Disparity ............................................................................................................................. 62
CRC .................................................................................................................................... 63
Fibre Channel Timers............................................................................................................... 64
Arbitrated Loop Timeout .................................................................................................... 64
Receiver_Transmitter Timeout ............................................................................................ 64
Error_Detect Timeout .......................................................................................................... 64
Resource Allocation Timeouts ............................................................................................. 65
Resource Recovery Timeout ................................................................................................ 65