Operating as Both a SCSI and Fibre Channel Device 2-9
Figure 2-6 Fibre Channel-to-SCSI Configuration
Operating as Both a SCSI and Fibre
Channel Device
The router is both a SCSI and Fibre Channel device operating
on a SCSI bus and Fibre Channel network simultaneously.
The SCSI Side
On a SCSI bus, the FCR200 acts as a SCSI initiator passing
requests from hosts on the Fibre Channel network to target
devices on the SCSI bus. Each FCR200 SCSI bus uses a single
SCSI ID. The default ID is 7 and can be changed when
configuring the FCR200.
The Fibre Channel Side
In a Fibre Channel loop, the FCR200 is identified by a single
Arbitrated Loop Physical Address (AL_PA) or a fabric
assigned Source ID. Once the address is acquired, any host on
the Fibre Channel loop can access the devices on a SCSI bus
transparently over a FC connection.
