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Appendix c fibre-to-scsi address conversion – Hitachi TAGMASTORE MK-90RD011-25 User Manual

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Appendix C Fibre-to-SCSI Address Conversion

Disks connected with Fibre channel display as SCSI disks on UNIX hosts. Disks connected with
Fibre channel connections can be fully utilized.

Fibre

AL_PA

LU

#0

LU

#1

LU

#n

LU

#0

LU

#1

LU

#n

Target ID

conversion table

. . .

. . .

Figure C.1 Example Fibre Address Conversion

Note: Use fixed address AL_PA (0xEF) when using iSCSI.

CCI converts fibre-channel physical addresses to SCSI target IDs (TIDs) using a conversion
table (see Figure C.2). Table C.1 shows the current limits for SCSI TIDs and LUNs on various
operating systems.

Table C.1

Limits for Target IDs and LUNs

HP-UX, other Systems Solaris, IRIX Systems Windows Systems

Port TID

LUN TID

LUN

TID

LUN

Fibre/ iSCSI 0 to 15

0 to 1023

0 to 125

0 to 1023

0 to 31 0 to 1023

SCSI

0 to 15

0 to 7

0 to 15

0 to 7

0 to 15 0 to 7