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Fibre Channel Interface Manual, Rev. D

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9.2.3

Fabric Login (FLOGI) (04)

Fabric Login (FLOGI) is sent by the drive to the fabric to establish the Fibre Channel operating parameters in a
public loop environment. When the drive sends FLOGI, any open exchanges (commands) queued in the drive
are discarded.

Field definitions (listed alphabetically)

Class 1 and 2 Service Parameters
The drive supports only class 3 service parameters. The drive sends all zeros for all other classes of service.

Class 3 Service Parameters
Sent by the drive. See Table 36 on page 70.

LS Command Code (Link Services Command Code)
04h

FLOGI payload.

N_Port Common Service Parameters
See Table 34 on page 68.

Port Name and Node Name
Used to identify the device. The drive is a dual-ported device.
The Port and Node Names in the FLOGI uniquely identify the drive and the port sending the FLOGI.
The drive uses a format for the Port and Node Names defined as the IEEE extended address. See Table 23.

Vendor Version
Vendor-unique. Not supported.

Table 33:

FLOGI Payload

Bit
Byte

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

3

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

LS Command Code

4-19

N_Port Common Service Parameters

20-27

Port Name

28-35

Node Name

36-51

Class 1 Service Parameters

52-67

Class 2 Service Parameters

68-83

Class 3 Service Parameters

84-99

Reserved

100-115

Vendor Version

Table

number

33

33

33

33

33

33

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