Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowl...@kev009.com> writes: > I'm shortly going to be the new owner of a z800 at home. Looking > forward to booting and playing with this bistro, what kind of disk array > do I need? Is fibre channel storage enough, or is FICON extra special > at the protocol level? Is there any way to network boot/emulate storage > or will I be looking for FICON arrays next?
there are two issues ... one is the FICON protoool running over fibre-channel standard ... some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#ficon and controller emulation of CKD on industry standard fixed-block disks (there haven't been any real CKD manufactured for decades). http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#dasd there have been various past discussions about IBM charging/justifying a significant $$/mbyte premium for that emulation trivia Build Your Own Fibre Channel SAN For Less Than $1000 - Part 1 http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-howto/31485-build-your-own-fibre-channel-san-for-less-than-1000-part-1 -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
