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260 Glossary

R_CTL

Route control. The first eight bits of the header, which defines the type of frame and its contents.

R_RDY

Receiver ready. A primitive signal indicating that the port is ready to receive a frame.

R_T_TOV

Receiver transmitter timeout value, used by receiver logic to detect loss of synchronization between transmitters and

receivers.

RAID

Redundant array of independent disks. A collection of disk drives that appear as a single volume to the server and

are fault tolerant through mirroring or parity checking. See also

JBOD

.

RCS

Reliable Commit Service.

remote switch

An optional product for long-distance fabrics, requiring a Fibre Channel-to-ATM or SONET gateway.

responder

The N_Port with which an exchange originator wishes to communicate.

RLS

Read Link Status.

route

As applied to a fabric, the communication path between two switches. May also apply to the specific path taken by

an individual frame, from source to destination. See also

FSPF

.

routing

The assignment of frames to specific switch ports, according to frame destination.

RR_TOV

Resource recovery timeout value. The minimum time a target device in a loop waits after a LIP before logging out an

SCSI initiator. See also

E_D_TOV

,

R_A_TOV

.

RSCN

Registered state change notification. A switch function that allows notification of fabric changes to be sent from the

switch to specified nodes. The fabric controller issues RSCN requests to N_Ports and NL_Ports, but only if they have

registered to be notified of state changes in other N_Ports and NL_Ports. This registration is performed via the State

Change Registration (SCR) Extended Link Service. An N_Port or NL_Port can issue an RSCN to the fabric controller

without having completed SCR with the fabric controller.

RTWR

Reliable transport with response. May appear as a task in

portlogdump

command output.

running disparity

A binary parameter that indicates the cumulative disparity (positive or negative) of all previously issued transmission

characters.