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Models: Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters

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Table 1-3

Hardware Path Field Descriptions (Continued)

 

 

 

 

 

Field

 

Value

Fibre Channel Topology of HBA

 

 

 

 

 

Fabric Topologies

Private Loop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Area

 

Depends on the

Taken from the second byte of the

0

 

 

Fibre Channel

N_Port ID of the target device.

 

 

 

topology of the HBA.

 

 

 

 

 

On some switches, the second byte of

 

 

 

 

the N_Port ID encodes the switch

 

 

 

 

port to which the device is

 

 

 

 

connected. The encoding method

 

 

 

 

depends on the switch. See your

 

 

 

 

switch manual to interpret this

 

 

 

 

field.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Port

 

Depends on the

For LUNs with Peripheral Device Addressing,

 

 

Fibre Channel

the value of this field is always 255.

 

 

topology of the HBA

 

 

 

 

For other LUN methods, the value of

For other LUN methods, the

 

 

and the target

 

 

this field is the least significant byte

value of this field is the Loop ID

 

 

device, and on the

 

 

of the N_Port ID of the target device.

of the target device.

 

 

LUN addressing

 

 

 

 

 

 

method used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bus

 

Depends on the

For LUNs with Peripheral Device

For LUNs with Peripheral Device

 

 

Fibre Channel

Addressing, the value of this field is

Addressing, the value of this field

 

 

topology of the HBA

the upper 4 bits of the least

is the upper 4-bits of the Loop

 

 

and the target

significant byte of the N_Port ID of

ID of the target device.

 

 

device, and on the

the target device.

 

 

 

LUN addressing

 

 

 

 

For LUNs with Logical Unit Addressing,

 

 

method used.

 

 

the value is the Bus Number field of the LUN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For LUNs with Volume Set Addressing (Flat Space Addressing),

 

 

 

the value is bits 7 - 13 of the LUN.

 

 

 

 

 

Target

 

Depends on the

For LUNs with Peripheral Device

With Peripheral Device

 

 

Fibre Channel

Addressing, the value of this field is

Addressing, the value of this field

 

 

topology and the

the lower 4-bits of the third byte of

is the lower 4-bits of the Loop ID

 

 

LUN addressing

the N_Port ID of the target device.

of the target device.

 

 

method used.

 

 

 

 

 

This field usually corresponds to the

 

 

 

 

Arbitrated Loop Physical Address

 

 

 

 

(AL_PA) of the target device.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For LUNs with Logical Unit Addressing,

 

 

 

the value is the Target field of the LUN.

 

 

 

For LUNs with Volume Set Addressing (Flat Space Addressing),

 

 

 

the value is bits 3 - 6 of the LUN.

 

 

 

 

 

LUN

 

Depends only on the LUN addressing method used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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