On Tuesday, 06/16/2009 at 02:39 EDT, Rob van der Heij <[email protected]>
wrote:

> There's nothing in the S/390 I/O architecture that supports the
> concept of R/O disks (unlike tapes).

Sure it is.  Command Reject + Write Inhibited.  Older drives had a
physical "R/O" switch on them.  It could also show up on more recent
drives as Equipment Check + Write Inhibited, indicating that the host has
set a logical R/O condition in the drive.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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