ANSI INCITS 296 : 1997 : R2007
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01-01-2007
Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
2.1 Approved references
2.2 Other References
3 Definitions and conventions
3.1 Definitions
3.2 Editorial conventions
3.3 Abbreviations, acronyms and symbols
4 I/O interface overview
4.1 Channel-path elements
4.2 Channel-path configurations
4.3 Information formats
4.4 Protocols
5 SBCON physical layer definition
5.1 Physical interface
5.2 Multimode physical layer
5.3 Single-mode physical layer
5.4 Bit-error-rate thresholding
6 Transmission code
6.1 Notation conventions
6.2 8B/10B transmission code
6.3 Special character combinations
7 Link transmission and reception characteristics
7.1 Synchronization
7.2 Idle character
7.3 Ordered-set reception
7.4 Sequence transmission and reception
8 Frame structure
8.1 Link header
8.2 Information field
8.3 Link trailer
8.4 Frame transmission and reception
8.5 Link-interval duration
8.6 Connection-recovery-interval duration
9 Link-level-control functions
9.1 Link-control frames
9.2 Functions and protocols for device frames
10 Link-level-facility and dynamic-switch-port states and
protocols
10.1 Initialization
10.2 Link-incident reporting
10.3 Offline procedures
10.4 Connection recovery
10.5 Link failure
10.6 Link abort
10.7 Connection
10.8 Link-level-facility states
10.9 Dynamic-switch-port states
10.10 Link timeout
10.11 Link-busy condition
11 Link and dynamic-switch-port error conditions
11.1 Link errors
11.2 Dynamic-switch-port errors
12 Device-frame format
12.1 Device-header
12.2 Device-information block
12.3 Device-frame delimiters
13 Device-level functions and protocols
13.1 Device-level operations
13.2 Device-level controls
13.3 Error handling at the device level
13.4 Resetting event
13.5 Special functions
14 Recovery actions for link-level and device-level
errors
14.1 Link-level recovery
14.2 Device-level recovery
14.3 Dynamic-switch-port recovery
15 Specific I/O-device commands
15.1 Basic sense command
15.2 No-operation control command
15.3 Read-configuration-data command
15.4 Read-IPL command
15.5 Read-node-identifier command
15.6 Sense-ID command
15.7 Set-interface-identifier command
16 I/O device self-description
16.1 Node descriptor
16.2 Node-qualifier
16.3 Node-element-descriptor
16.4 Specific-node-element-qualifier
16.5 General-node-element-qualifier
Annexes
Annex A (informative) Status combinations
Annex B (informative) Self-description model supplementary
Information
Annex C (informative) Frame formats
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