Re: DASD Performance

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

At 03:35 PM 10/1/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Hey Folks!
>
>I heard a _NASTY_ rumor last week, and wanted to confirm it here.  While
we've
>had our tuning differences here in the past (I prefer manual tuning, others
>prefer QPFRADJ set on), one thing we've always agreed upon is that the number
>of disc arms is important.  Now I hear that arms are irrelevant on the new
>SCSI-based boxes, because the SCSI architecture will only access one drive at
>a time.  Is this true?  If so, how does one tune hardware under this new
>paradigm?  All the books still talk about arms!!!
>
Arms, arms, arms, arms.

Al




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