GL–7

host compatibility

A setting used by the controller to provide optimal controller performance

mode

with specific operating systems. This improves the controller’s performance

 

and compatibility with the specified operating system.

hot disks

A disk containing multiple hot spots. Hot disks occur when the workload is

 

poorly distributed across storage devices which prevents optimum subsystem

 

performance. See also hot spots.

hot spots

A portion of a disk drive frequently accessed by the host. Because the data

 

being accessed is concentrated in one area, rather than spread across an array

 

of disks providing parallel access, I/O performance is significantly reduced.

 

See also hot disks.

hot swap

A method of device replacement that allows normal I/O activity on a

 

device’s bus to remain active during device removal and insertion. The

 

device being removed or inserted is the only device that cannot perform

 

operations during this process. See also cold swap and warm swap.

IBR

Initial Boot Record.

ILF

Illegal function.

INIT

Initialize Input and Output.

initiator

A SCSI device that requests an I/O process to be performed by another SCSI

 

device, namely, the SCSI target. The controller is the initiator on the device

 

bus. The host is the initiator on the host bus.

instance code

A four-byte value displayed in most text error messages and issued by the

 

controller when a subsystem error occurs. The instance code indicates when

 

during software processing the error was detected.

I/O driver

The set of code in the kernel that handles the physical I/O to a device. This is

 

implemented as a fork process. Same as driver.

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