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3.0 Fibre Channel standards
Figure 1 shows the various documents involved in the ANSI set of standards relating to Fibre Channel. This
model is not static—it is growing as others areas of interest are developed.
Figure 1. Fibre Channel standards
The interface is compatible with a subset of the ANSI standards listed below:
• SCSI-2 Standard and the Common Command Set (CCS) document, Revision 4.B
• SCSI Parallel Interface-3 (SPI-3)
• SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) Command Set, X3T10 NCITS, 305-199x
• Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling, Revision 4.3 (FC-PH)
• Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling, Revision 7.4 (FC-PH-2)
• Fibre Channel Physical and Signaling, Revision 9.4 (FC-PH-3)
• SCSI Fibre Channel Protocol, Revision 12 (SCSI-FCP)
• Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop, Revision 4.5 (FC-AL)
• Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop Direct Attach SCSI Technical Report
• Fibre Channel Fabric Loop Attach Technical Report
FC-SB
Mapping of Single-Byte
Command Code Sets
FC-FP
Mapping of
HIPPI-FP
FC-ATM
Mapping of
ATM
FC-PH-n
Fibre Channel Enhanced Physical
FC-PH
Fibre Channel Physical Interface
FC-IG
Fibre Channel Implementation Guide
X3.230-1994
FC-AE
Avionics
Environment
FC-LE
Link
Encapsulation
SCSI-FCP
SCSI-FC
Protocol
SCSI-GPP
Generic
Packetized
Protocol
FC-AL-n
Arbitrated Loop
FC-I3
Revision to
IPI-3 Disk std
FC-SW
Switch Fabric
FC-FG
General Fabric
Requirements
FC-I3
Revision to
IPI-3 Tape std
FC-GS
Generic Services