Ed, I give up. I really do. You really just do not want to understand how this works do you.
If you want to buy a couple of T4 connections with Flashcopy, Timefinder or Shadowimage then go ahead - but where the freak are you going to plug them in? And good luck rewriting the microcode to actually use it! Ron > > > > ---------------------SNIP--------------- > > I believe the industry is misleading the user (our management) with > the term "instant". > > I think*MAYBE* a better term would be point in time with an asterisk > explaining the exception(s). > > For remote point in time copy, to me its disengenious to call it > instant. Fast probably is OK as well. But the remote "funnel" has to > be fairly big to handle the I/O load. I am not involved in the > purchasing decisions but I would think a few t-4's or dark fibre > might be able to handle it. > > For a local it is still tied how fast the control unit (shark, stk > etc) can actually duplicate the data. > > Ed > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html