General Interface Description - Seagate 77767496 Product Manual

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General interface description

This manual describes the Seagate Technology LLC Fibre Channel/SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface)
as implemented on Seagate Fibre Channel (FC) disc drives.
The disc drives covered by this manual are classified as intelligent peripherals.
The interface supports multiple initiators, self-configuring host software, automatic features that relieve the
host from the necessity of knowing the physical architecture of the target (logical block addressing is used),
and some other miscellaneous features.
The physical interface uses differential drivers and receivers for the Fibre Channel serial connections. The sin-
gle channel transfer rate is 106 MB/second (commonly called 1 gigabit/sec) or 212 MB/second (commonly
called 2 gigabit/sec). See the Volume 1 Product Manual for a definition of the electrical characteristics of the
interface.
2 Fibre Channel Interface Manual, Rev. D