SCF Reference Manual for the Storage Subsystem (G06.28+, H06.05+, J06.03+)

New and Changed Information in the August 2013 Edition
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ChangeChapter
Chapter 5: “Displaying Information About
Disk Drives” (page 48)
• Added statement that the FastBulkWrite attribute affects all
512-byte-sector disks to “Displaying Disk Configuration Information”
(page 50) and “Displaying Profile Attributes” (page 54)
• Updated sample display and explanation of fields in “Displaying Disk
Configuration Information” (page 50), “Displaying Disk Cache
Configuration Information” (page 59), and “Displaying Disk Cache
Statistics” (page 60).
Under WRITECACHE, deleted unneeded phrase, “Make sure this chain
of mirrored disk partitions involves only a few disks.”
Chapter 6: “Configuring Disks” (page 70)
Added a note to “Types of Disks” (page 70) stating that the terms “disk”
and “physical disk” include both magnetic and solid state disks.
Added a consideration to “Considerations for WRITECACHE” (page 94)
indicating that altering WRITECACHE on a busy system might cause disk
aborts on some systems.
Updated sample display in “Configuring Disk Cache” (page 87).
Changed “Examples of Detailed INFO SCSI Reports” (page 171) to read
RECSIZE in “bytes” instead of “number of words.”
Chapter 12: “Configuring and Managing
Open SCSI Devices” (page 170)
Under descriptions of WRITECACHE, deleted unneeded phrase, “Make
sure this chain of mirrored disk partitions involves only a few disks.”
Chapter 14: “Storage Subsystem
Commands” (page 190)
Changed “ADD SCSI Attributes” (page 223) to read RECSIZE in “bytes”
instead of “number of words.”
Changed “ADD TAPE Attributes” (page 226) to read RECSIZE in “bytes”
instead of “number of words.”
Changed “ALTER SCSI Attributes” (page 238) to read RECSIZE in “bytes”
instead of “number of words.”
Changed “ALTER TAPE Attributes” (page 242) to read RECSIZE in “bytes”
instead of “number of words.”
Changed “Displaying Configuration Information” (page 180) to read “in
bytes” instead of “in number of bytes.”
Changed “Examples of INFO TAPE Detailed Reports” (page 181) to read
“in bytes” instead of “in number of bytes.”
Changed description of FASTBULKWRITE field under “Attribute
Descriptions for Disk Commands” (page 198).
For references to magnetic disks, deleted the term “magnetic” or changed
the term “magnetic” to “physical.”
Throughout the manual
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