LSI MiniHAB 44929LO - Manual (Page 71)

Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations A-3
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FC-1 Middle level of the FC-PH standard, defining the 8B/10B
encoding/decoding and transmission protocol.
FC-2 Highest level of FC-PH, defining the rules for signaling protocol and
describing transfer of the frame, sequence, and exchanges.
FC-3 The hierarchical level in the FC standard that provides common services,
such as striping definition.
FC-4 The hierarchical level in the FC standard that specifies the mapping of
Upper Layer Protocols (ULPs) to levels below.
FCC Federal Communications Commission.
FCP Fibre Channel Protocol.
FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface. ANSI option for a Metropolitan Area
Network (MAN); a network based on the use of optical fiber cable to
transmit data at 100 Mbits/s.
Fibre Channel Fibre Channel is the general name of an integrated set of standards
being developed by the Americal National Standards Institute (ANSI)
which defines new protocols for flexible information transfer.
Fibre Channel
Service
Protocol (FSP) The common FC-4 level protocol for all services, transparent to the fabric
type or topology.
File A named collection of information stored on a disk.
Firmware Software that is permanently stored in ROM. Therefore, it can be
accessed during boot time.
F_Port “Fabric” port, the access point of the fabric for physically connecting the
user’s N_Port.
FL_Port An F_Port that contains arbitrated loop functions.
Frame A linear set of transmitted bits that define a basic transport element.
HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer.
Hard Disk A disk made of metal and permanently sealed into a drive cartridge. A
hard disk can store very large amounts of information.