Re: Pinned data on 2107 aka DS8000



On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:26:55 -0500, Eric Bielefeld <eric-ibmmain@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

John - Thanks for the definition. That brings furthur questions. How does
data get into the cache that can't be written to disk? Is that something
caused by a power failure for the device, or some other failure? Also, I
would think that if that condition can cause the 2107 not to work, that
there should be some easy way for the customer to push a button or type in
something on the service console to clear the cache. To me it sounds like a
design flaw, although I haven't kept up with the technical details of the
2107 as well as I should be.

Device end came back , power went off before data for thre track was
hardened onto the disk .
The command to use is setcache with the proper parameters cfw pendingoff
or else
The problem is that this was tried by the OP but did not succeed .
But it is normaly the simple way to do it so there is no design flaw.
Perhaps there is a hardware problem.
Bruno Sugliani
zxnetconsult(at)free(dot)fr
http://zxnetconsult.free.fr

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