IBM DASD alternatives?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Thursday 08 December 2005 14:24, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 
>>DASD isn't a requisite of using a mainframe.  Just use minidisks. 
>>DASD is mostly used for data storage.  Although there are a lot of
>>setups out there that IPL from DASD, I would venture to say that most
>>setups IPL from minidisk.  Not that most setups IPL that often.
> 
> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but how do you have minidisks without some DASD to 
> put them on?

There's actually a couple of ways.  You can do it through the front-end, 
and you can do it over a SAN.

Peace...  Sridhar