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34 Cheetah 4LP FC Product Manual, Rev. A
9.1.8 Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop options
Table 9 lists the FC-AL options supported by ST34501FC drives.
9.2 Dual port support
ST34501FC drives have two ports for connection to two independent loops. Both loops may be active, but only
one of these ports may be receiving or originating transfers at any one time.
Do not connect both ports to the same loop.
9.3 SCSI interface commands supported
Table 10 lists the SCSI interface commands that ST34501FC drives support.
Table 9: FC-AL options supported
Option Supported
OPEN Half Duplex Sent to open another device.
Accepted from another device.
OPEN Full Duplex Accepted from another device.
Private Loop Yes
Public Loop No
Old Port State No
Loop Position Yes
Loop Position Report Yes
Table 10: Supported commands
Command code Supported Command name
00h Y Test unit ready
01h Y Rezero unit
03h Y Request sense
Y Extended sense
Y Field pointer bytes
Y Actual retry count bytes
04h Y Format unit [1]
07h Y Reassign blocks
08h Y Read
0Ah Y Write
0Bh Y Seek
12h Y Inquiry
Y Vital product data page
Y Unit serial number page
Y Implemented operating def. page
Y Firmware numbers page
Y Date code page
Y Jumper settings page
15h Y Mode select (same pages as Mode Sense command shown below)
16h N Reserve [3]
17h N Release [3]
18h N Copy
1Ah Y Mode sense