Fibre Channel Bench Reference: Technical Guide to Serial SCSI-3 (ENDL SCSI Series) [Spiral-bound]

Jeffrey D. Stai (Author)

Book Description

Series: Endl Scsi Series | Publication Date: August 1995

There are over 20 published or draft standards for Fibre Channel, and the information is not correlated well between them. The Fibre Channel Bench Reference extracts the most relevant information and packs it into a compact ready-reference guide.

* FC-0 Connectors, Cables and Transceivers
* FC-1 8B/10B Encoding, including a complete set of translation tables
* FC-2 Protocol
* FC-AL (Arbitrated Loop)
* SCSI-3 FCP (Fibre Channel Protocol)

The information required to implement the PLDA (Private Loop Device Attach) profile for storage devices and other mainstream applications is specifically covered.

The spiral bound Lab Manual (ISBN 1-879936-17-8) lays flat. Its compact 8" x 8.5" size makes it a convenient companion, be it on a desk, a lab bench or in a briefcase. Tabs separate the major sections so users can turn straight to the subject wanted, and like the cover, they are mylar reinforced. The Paperback (ISBN 1-879936-31-5) comes without tabs and mylar reinforcement.

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Technical Guide to Serial SCSI-3: makes the information needed for Fibre Channel SCSI-3 easy to find.

About the Author

Author Jeffrey D. Stai was present when the ASC (Accredited Standards Committee) for SCSI was first formed and remained active as a principal representative for several years, until he switched to the ASC for Fibre Channel. He has designed disk controller hardware, controller firmware and chips, and wishes the SCSI Encyclopedia and the SCSI Bench Reference had been available years ago. In the absence of someone else providing such tools, he was persuaded to become an author so that others could benefit from his experience. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 208 pages
• Publisher: Endl Pubns (August 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879936178
• ISBN-13: 978-1879936171
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 8.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,026,500 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed Fibre Channel Protocol Information, September 14, 2001

By 

Steve W. Bonds (Beaverton, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fibre Channel Bench Reference (ENDL SCSI Series) (Paperback)

If it's not in this book you'd better hope you never need it! This book gives detailed byte-by-byte descriptions of data fields inside fibre channel packets, and even goes one step farther to describe how the individual light pulses get converted into those bytes.

The only drawback is its age when compared to some of the moving standards. In a few cases, fibre channel (i.e. FC-SW) has been extended beyond what is in this book but I have yet to find any better reference.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An *EXCELLENT* Quick Reference for Fibre Channel, July 24, 2000

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Matthew Jacob (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fibre Channel Bench Reference (ENDL SCSI Series) (Paperback)

This book is very well organized and fun to read. It presents an extremely complicated topic in a clearly written and well-diagrammed fashion. It also presents with much more humour than is usually the case for books on engineering standards. I especially like a nearly blank page that is marked with "This page is blank, and we INTENDED it to be BLANK! Make the flow of things nicer, doesn't it?".

This book is now some years old, but the information contained within is still valid, and this is a must for all engineers who want to understand both the software and hardware issues with Fibre Channel.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed Fibre Channel Protocol Information, September 15, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Fibre Channel Bench Reference (ENDL SCSI Series) (Paperback)

If it's not in this book you'd better hope you never need it! This book gives detailed byte-by-byte descriptions of data fields inside fibre channel packets, and even goes one step farther to describe how the individual light pulses get converted into those bytes.

The only drawback is its age when compared to some of the moving standards. In a few cases, fibre channel (i.e. FC-SW) has been extended beyond what is in this book but I have yet to find any better reference.