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General Information
This chapter contains an overview about the Fibre Channel specifications for Oracle’s
StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive, which conforms to the:
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• National Committee for Information Technology Standards (NCITS)
TABLE 1-1 lists the documents that help define this implementation.
TABLE 1-1 Fibre Channel Reference Documentation
Specification Revision
Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface FC-PH X3.230: 1994
Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface 2
nd
Generation FC-PH-2 X3.297: 1997
Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling Interface 3
rd
Generation FC-PH-3 X3.303:1998
2FC* Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop FC-AL X3.272-1996 Rev. 4.5
2FC* Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop 2 (August 28, 1998) FC-AL-2 Working Draft Rev. 6.4
4FC* Fibre Channel Physical Interface FC-PI T11/Project 1306-0, Rev. 2
4FC* Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling Interface ANSI/INCITS:373:2003
Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling Interface 2 ANSI/INCITS:424:2007
Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling Interface 3 FC-FS-3 T11/1861-D Rev 1.11
16FC* Fibre Channel Physical Interfaces 5 ANSI/INCITS:479:2011
Fibre Channel - Link Services ANSI/INCITS:433:2006
Fibre Channel - Link Services - 2 ANSI/INCITS:477:2011
Fibre Channel Fabric Loop Attachment Technical Report FC-FLA NCITS/TR-20: 1998
Fibre Channel Private Loop Direct Attach Technical Report FC-PLDA NCITS/TR-19: 1998
Fibre Channel Generic Services Definition 2
nd
Generation FC-GS-2 NCITS 288.200x, Rev. 5.3
Fibre Channel Generic Services Definition 3
rd
Generation FC-GS-3 Working Draft Rev. 6.2
Fibre Channel Tape Profile Technical Report (May 14, 1999) FS-Tape T11/99-069v4, Rev. 1.17
SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol SCSI FCP X3.269:1996, Rev. 12
* Indicates specific reference for that implementation of the Fibre Channel interface.