16 report port speed capabilities (rpsc), 4 common fibre channel services, 16 “report port speed capabilities (rpsc) – Hitachi ULTRASTAR 15K450 HUS154530VLF400 User Manual

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Hitachi Ultrastar 15K450 (FC-AL) Hard Disk Drive Specification

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Table 78: Topology Discovery Flags

The Topology Discovery Support flag signals that the node supports further Topology Discovery inquiries. This flag is set to
0 by the drive.

The Loop Position Valid flag indicates that multiple Node Identification Data records are reported in the order detected by a
Loop Position Report Primitive. The drive returns only a single Node Identification Data record and sets this flag to 0.

17.3.16 Report Port Speed Capabilities (RPSC)

The Report Port Speed Capabilities ELS provides a mechanism for a port to report its current and potential link operating
speeds. The response to the RPSC payload is an LS_ACC response which indicates speed capabilities and current operating
speeds of each port.

Table 79: RPSC payload

Table 80: RPSC ACC payload

The Speed Capabilities fields indicate that the drive is capable of 1Gb/sec, 2 Gb/sec, and 4 Gb/sec operations.

The Operating Speed fields indicate the port's current operating speed as follows: 8000h for 1Gb/sec, 4000h for 2 Gb/sec, or
2000h for 4 Gb/sec.

17.4 Common Fibre Channel Services

Common Fibre Channel Service Request uses the Common Transport (CT) Interface to communicate with FC Fabric Servers.
The CT interface provides several Information Units, (CT_IU)s, which provide the transport mechanism between service
requestors and their servers.

In CT_IU frames, the TYPE field in the frame header is set to 20h (Fibre Channel Service). R_CTL is either 02h (FC-4
Device_Data, Unsolicited Control) for a Request or 03h (FC-4 Device_Data, Solicited Control) for a Reply.

Each CT_IU payload starts with a 16 byte CT Header as shown in Table 81.

Byte

BIT

Default
request

values

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

0

Reserved

TDF

000h

Byte

Item

Size (Bytes)

0-3

Command Code = 7D000000h

4

Byte

Item

Size (Bytes)

0

ACC Cmd Code = 02h

1

1

Reserved = 0

1

2-3

Number of Entries = 0002h

2

4-5

Port 1 Speed Capabilities = E000h

2

6-7

Port 1 Operating Speed

2

8-9

Port 2 Speed Capabilities = E000h

2

10-11

Port 2 Operating Speed

2

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