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Chapter 7 Fibre Channel Interface
Fibre Channel Tape Drive Features
DLT-S4 Product Manual
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Figure 18 Fibre Channel Cable
Connector
Connector
Fibre Channel Tape Drive Features
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The DLT-S4 Fibre Channel tape drive supports the following features:
• Automatic speed negotiation, with transfer rates of:
• 1 Gb per second
• 2 Gb per second
• 4 Gb per second
• 2 Gb per second
• 4 Gb per second
• Automatic topology negotiation (the tape drive operates as an
NL_Port or N_Port):
• Arbitrated Loop—private loop, NL_Port to NL_Ports(s)
• Arbitrated Loop—public loop, NL_Port to NL_Ports(s) and one
• Arbitrated Loop—private loop, NL_Port to NL_Ports(s)
• Arbitrated Loop—public loop, NL_Port to NL_Ports(s) and one
FL_Port.
• Fabric attachment—N_Port to F_Port
• Point-to-Point attachment—N_Port to N_Port
• Point-to-Point attachment—N_Port to N_Port
• FCP-2 (SCSI-3 command set) for tape devices
• Class 3 level of service
• Basic and extended link services
• Hard assigned port address, when attached to a library.
• Class 3 level of service
• Basic and extended link services
• Hard assigned port address, when attached to a library.
The library has the ability to assign a hard address to the tape drive. If
no hard address is assigned to the tape drive, then a soft address is
taken initially.