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Table of Contents
List of Figures .......................................................................................................................... 7
List of Tables ............................................................................................................................9
Preface ......................................................................................................................................13
Access to Oracle Support ..................................................................................................... 13
1 General Information ............................................................................................................. 15
Serial Attached SCSI ................................................................................................................ 15
The Fibre Channel Standard ..................................................................................................... 16
Overview ............................................................................................................................ 16
Implementation .................................................................................................................. 16
Related Publications ................................................................................................................. 17
2 Host Application Best Practices .................................................................................... 19
Running on Both Fibre Channel or SAS Ports .......................................................................... 19
Logical Unit Number Addressing ............................................................................................. 19
Drive Element Addressing Mode Configuration ....................................................................... 19
Address All Drive Slots ....................................................................................................... 19
Address Installed Drives Only ............................................................................................20
3 Operation and Configuration Details ........................................................................... 21
Multiple Initiator Support ........................................................................................................ 21
Host Timeout Characteristics .................................................................................................. 21
Device Reservations ................................................................................................................. 21
4 Command Set ......................................................................................................................... 25
Implementation Requirements ................................................................................................. 25
Command Descriptor Block ...............................................................................................25
Control Byte ........................................................................................................................ 27
List of Supported Commands .................................................................................................. 28
SCSI Command Status ............................................................................................................. 29
Good .................................................................................................................................. 29
Check Condition ................................................................................................................ 29
Busy ................................................................................................................................... 29
Reservation Conflict ........................................................................................................... 29
Task Aborted ...................................................................................................................... 29