Robert O'Hara wrote:
> I am looking at reworking the arrangement of disks in the VM 5-pack system.
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> I have looked at the current disk utilization of MAINT, and I believe that all of his minidisks can comfortably fit on a single 3350. Also, all of the VM system disks (PERM, TDSK, TEMP) can fit on a single 3350.
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Not sure. Not done the sums...
> Now of course on a real mainframe we would want these disks spread out over several channels, but it seems to me that with Hercules it does not matter. Is that a correct assumption?
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If you have several disks then spreading over several disks will help,
if you have RPS. Also I think existing layout is based on sample directs
supplied with original system...
> I propose:
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> disk 1: PERM, TEMP, TDSK
> disk 2: all of MAINT's disks
> disk 3: OPERATOR, RSCS, RSCS1, CPWATCH, AUTOLOG1, CMSBATCH,
> ALGOL, BREXX, COBOL, DOSVS, OSBASIC, PLI, PL360, RPG,
> SCRIPT, TAPEMAC, WATFIV
> disk 4: GCCCMS
> disk 5: REGINA, CMSUSER
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> Comments on this layout?
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You still need both disk1 and disk 2 to ipl a working system. I think I
would try and make sure I had enough stuff on sysres to ipl a single pack...
> Thanks, Bob
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