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Cables and Connectors 39
Cable Guidelines for Hubs 40
Giga-bit Interface Converters 40
5. Fibre Channel Operations 41
Fibre Channel Levels 41
Terms/Definitions 42
FC–Tape Terms 42
Sun StorageTek Terms 42
Error Detection and Management 43
FC-0 Features 44
FC-0 and Initialization 44
Device States (FC-0, FC-1, FC-2) 44
Power Up 44
Not Ready 44
Ready 44
Power Down 44
FC-1 Features 45
FC-1 and Initialization 45
8B/10B Encoding and Decoding 45
Disparity 45
FC-AL Features 46
Initialization 46
Address Processes 47
Open State/Loop Initialization 48
Related Processes 48
Completion Processes 49
Feature Set 50
Login_BB_Credit Equals Zero 51
Open and Close Latencies 51
Fabric F_PORT Attachment Initialization 51
FC-2 Features 52
Login Validation 52
Class of Service Parameters 53