Patent ID: 8116330

Claim:
A Fibre Channel bridge device comprising: a Fibre Channel interface circuit for coupling with a Fibre Channel arbitrated loop (FC-AL) wherein the Fibre Channel interface circuit responds to multiple target arbitrated loop physical addresses (T-ALPAs); a back-end interface circuit to couple with a plurality of storage devices wherein the plurality of storage devices are not FC-AL storage devices; and a bypass control logic circuit coupled with the Fibre Channel interface circuit and coupled with the back-end interface circuit wherein the bypass control logic circuit to map one of the multiple T-ALPAs to each of the plurality of storage devices and wherein the bypass control logic circuit processes loop port enable (LPE) and loop port bypass (LPB) Fibre Channel primitive sequences for each of the multiple T-ALPAs so as to bypass and enable individual ones of the plurality of storage devices regardless of a state of others of the plurality of storage devices.