ANSI/INCITS 437-2008

This standard specifies a Fibre Channel mapping layer (i.e., an FC-4) to enable the use of Fibre Channeltopologies to attach Serial ATA devices to ATA host systems. The Serial ATA interface is defined in theATA/ATAPI-7 set of standards (ANSI INCITS 397-2005).

This standard specifies:

a) Efficient transport of Serial ATA commands and responses over any Fibre Channel topology;

b) Communication of necessary Serial ATA interface conditions over any Fibre Channel topology;

c) Coordinated shared use of Serial ATA devices by multiple host systems on any Fibre Channeltopology;

d) Discovery of Serial ATA devices attached to any Fibre Channel topology; and

e) Concurrent operation with other Fibre Channel FC-4s in the same Fibre Channel topology.

This standard requires no changes to existing Serial ATA standards and no changes to existing FibreChannel standards other than nominal changes necessary for addition of a new FC-4. This standard issuitable for implementation in infrastructure attachment devices, so that existing Serial ATA and FibreChannel products may be incorporated in systems that take advantage of this standard.