Re: DASD pumping.....

["Al Barsa, Jr." <barsa2@xxxxxxx>]

At 05:09 PM 6/25/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>OK, dumb question...
>
>I recall back a while ago when I had my last DASD failure that the CE was
>able to pump from HDA to HDA....the current guy at this client's shop,
>says he's not heard of it and that "the only way they're teaching us is to
>pump to tape..."   Needless to say it's been a long day, and since he's
>not here yet I'm curious as heck if anyone knows the DASD to DASD pump
>proceedure.....FORTUNATELY I've not had to putz in that part of SST for a
>while....:)

The good news is:

IBM had been on a course to allow DASD to DASD pump.

The bad news is:

I've seen so few failed DASD recently (either by virtue of pure
reliability, or RAID-5 or mirroring), that I am no longer current on this
topic.  I have forwarded this note to IBM (hopefully) for a response.

Al



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