Fibre Channel for Mass Storage

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1.3. Fibre Channel for Mass Storage

Since Fibre Channel is a generic data transport mechanism, Fibre Channel can transmit a number of existing networking and I/O protocols:

I/O protocols:

SCSI
HIPPI
IPI

Network protocols:

IP
IEEE 802.2

Hewlett-Packard has chosen to support the SCSI-3 protocol over Fibre Channel for its mass storage environment. Mass storage consists of several device classes:

tapes
disks
disk arrays

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