Re: disk arms (was RE: Tips for user ASP)

> 1)  How many system buses you have.
> 2)  How many disk controllers you have.
> 3)  The distribution of disk controllers on your buses.
> 3)  What other high speed devices share a bus with a disk controller.
> 4)  How many disk arms are attached to each disk controller.
> 5)  How many disk controllers + arms are in each disk ASP.
> 6)  Whether you think you have a disk arm problem.
> 7)  How you can tell you have a disk arm problem.
>
> Thanks a bunch,
>
> --  Charly

I don't understand, with these tiny drives and RAM as cheap as it is,
why someone has brought out an AS/400 compatible drive with 30 or 60 GB of
RAM cache.

I'm doing a SCSI tape emulator on the AS/400, but I suppose there is nothing
like an AS/400 SCSI disk attach.

Brad Jensen