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Mass storage devices overview



Mass storage devices overview
        What is the Storage Device Interface (SDI)?
                What are target drivers?
                What are HBA drivers?
        Physical devices
        Device drivers, special files and the device database
        Mass storage device names
                Hard disks
                Tape drives
                        Retensioning and rewinding
                CD-ROM drives
                WORM drives
                Medium changers
        Managing mass storage devices and media
                Suggestions for managing storage devices
                Displaying information about devices
                Displaying information about media
                Formatting hard disks
                Checking a corrupt filesystem
                Managing multipath I/O environments
                        Managing ghost names in multipath I/O environments
                Adding or removing hardware controllers
                Creating disk partitions and slices
                        Hard disk partitioning
                        Defining slices
                Adding hard disks
                Adding tape drives
                Hot adding or removing SCSI storage devices
                Hot-plugable controllers
                Removing old disk addresses after moving a disk
                Expanding swap space
        Copying data on mass storage media
                Copying files from hard disk to hard disk
                Copying directory contents from hard disk to tape
                Copying files from tape to hard disk

SCOadmin Storage Managers
        Adding a Second Disk
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