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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2008
Dung Ngoc Dang, Merritt Island, FL (US);
Chung Man Fung, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steven Edward Klein, Tucson, AZ (US);
Patricia Ching LU, Fremont, CA (US);
Dung Ngoc Dang, Merritt Island, FL (US);
Chung Man Fung, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steven Edward Klein, Tucson, AZ (US);
Patricia Ching Lu, Fremont, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for performing a data exchange between an initiator and a receiver in a fiber channel protocol (FCP) is provided. A control flag is set in a write command to indicate the presence of an identifier. The identifier is copied into a command descriptor block (CDB) of the write command and appended to a data frame. The write command and data frame, including the identifier, is sent from the initiator to the receiver.