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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2004
John M Fike, Austin, TX (US);
Patricia E Hareski, Austin, TX (US);
John M Fike, Austin, TX (US);
Patricia E Hareski, Austin, TX (US);
Qlogic Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Abstract
A fibre channel switch element with an acceleration device that connects plural fibre channel devices in an arbitrated loop and monitors frames sent during a loop initialization process is provided. The acceleration device creates an AL_PA table selected by each fibre channel device, wherein the AL_PA table is used for port selection; and during an arbitration process sends a benign primitive to non-arbitrating devices. The acceleration device includes, a global arbitration module, a state machine module, and a matrix for connecting plural fibre channel devices.