Addressing Methods and Table Structures

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Fibre Channel and SCSI systems use different methods of addressing devices. The router has a method of translating device IDs so each SCSI device is mapped to the appropriate Fibre Channel LUN. The SCSI buses establish the bus connections between devices. Targets on a SCSI bus may internally address LUNs. The addressing of a specific SCSI device is represented by the BUS:TARGET:LUN triplet.

When a Fibre Channel Initiator initializes on a loop, the host must first determine what devices exist on the loop. Device discovery is performed and an FCP target device list is built. Each device is queried for FCP LUNs (the LUNs are the actual devices that the operating system will address.) The addressing used is the SCC Logical Unit Addressing and Peripheral Device Addressing method, shown in Table 20 through Table 23. First level addressing is supported, so only the first two bits of the 8-bit FCP LUN are used.