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View Type Fields in 1394 Transaction Rows

There are no View Type Fields in 1394 transaction rows.

Serial Bus Protocol (SBP) Transactions

There are two types of SBP transactions: management agent transactions and command

block (fetch) agent transactions.

Management agent transactions consist of a management agent initiating the transfer of a

management operation request block (ORB), a response to the ORB, and finally Status.

Management agent transaction rows may contain any or all of the fields in Table 5-3.

Command block agent transactions are made of an initiator writing to one of the agent's

registers, and the agent's resulting activity. Command block agent transaction rows may

contain the fields listed in Table 5-4.

Responder The ID of the target node.

address The destination offset of the responder.

data_len The amount of data, in bytes, returned to the responder.

response The terminal response for the transaction.

# of packets The number of packets that make up the transaction.

Time Stamp The Time Stamp value of the first packet in the transaction.

Table 5-3: Fields in SBP management agent transaction rows

Field Heading Description

Initiator The ID of the node that initiated the transaction.

Target The ID of the target node.

LUN The logical unit number (LUN) to which the transaction applies.

Management The value of the function field of the management ORB.

Response The ORB to which the response is returned.

ORB Status The value of the resp field of the ORB status block. This field is

expandable and collapsible.

Dead The value of the d (dead) field of the ORB status block.

sbp_status The value of the sbp_status field of the ORB status block.

consists of The number of IEEE 1394 transactions that make up the SBP

transaction.

Table 5-4: Fields in SBP command block (fetch) agent transaction rows

Field Heading Description

Initiator The value is the ID of the node that initiated the transaction.

Target The value is the ID of the target node.

LUN The value is the logical unit number (LUN) that the transaction applies

to.

Table 5-2: Fields in 1394 transaction rows (Continued)

Field Heading Description