HP UX 11i v1 I/O Cards manual Switch to which the target

HP-UX Installation

Interpreting Hardware Paths

		Fibre Channel Topology of HBA
Field	Value Information	Fabric Topologies such as Public	Private Loop
		Loop and Direct Fabric Attach
Domain	The value depends	This field is typically the Domain ID	This field is set to 8.
	on the Fibre	of the switch to which the target
	Channel topology of	device is attached. The value of	For historical reasons, HP-UX
	the HBA.	this field is taken from the most	uses a Domain ID of 8 to indicate
		significant byte of the N_Port ID of	Private Loops. Fibre Channel
		the target device.	switches seen by HP-UX hosts
			cannot be configured with
			Domain ID of 8; doing so is
			unsupported and will not work.
Area	The value depends	This field is taken from the second	This field is set to 0.
	on the Fibre	byte of the N_Port ID of the target
	Channel topology of	device.
	the HBA.	On some switches, the second byte of
		the N_Port ID encodes the switch
		port to which the device is
		connected. How this encoding is
		done depends on the switch. Consult
		the relevant switch manual to
		interpret this field.
Port	The value depends	For LUNs with Peripheral Device	For LUNs with Peripheral Device
	on the Fibre	Addressing, the value of this field is	Addressing, the value of this field
	Channel topology of	always 255.	is always 255.
	the HBA and the
	target device, and on	For other LUN methods, the value of	For other LUN methods, the
	the LUN addressing	this field is the least significant byte	value of this field is the Loop ID
	method used.	of the N_Port ID of the target device.	of the target device.
Bus	The value depends	For LUNs with Peripheral Device	For LUNs with Peripheral Device
	on the Fibre	Addressing, the value of this field is	Addressing, the value of this field
	Channel topology of	the upper 4-bits of the least	is the upper 4-bits of the Loop
	the HBA and the	significant byte of the N_Port ID of	ID of the target device.
	target device, and on	the target device.
	the LUN addressing
		For LUNs with Logical Unit Addressing, the value is the Bus Number
	method used.
		field of the Logical Unit Number.
		For LUNs with Volume Set Addressing (Flat Space Addressing), the
		value is bits 7 - 13 of the Logical Unit Number

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