Ed, Your system takes four hours to write a DVD. Not exactly up to date is it. I can write a 50GB Blue RAY data DVD in under an hour.
Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Ed Gould > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd > > --- On Tue, 10/12/10, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > ------------------SNIP-------------------------------- > May I also point out that tape is no longer required to load z/OS. Thus it > is now possible to configure and use a new mainframe with z/OS but without > any tape drives. > > (*) Except I don't speak for IBM. > > > > Timothy: > Interesting... The last system I installed took about 3 hours to load from > tape (IIRC 6250 its been that long). What is the guesstimated load time for > Z/os with a DVD. I suspect it will be 8+ hours based on my system taking 4+ > hours to write a full DVD . > Plus as a side note you (IBM) should really better document the backup of the > internal system disk that comes with your (IBM) systems now. I tried my > damndest to just figure out what kind of DVD was needed and 3 days of calling > everyone at IBM could not supply any answer.Ed > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
