Jeff Writes:

>1) just show the first 9 bytes of the model and thus not change the
>   starting column for the 'volume' and 'volume set-gen' fields.

No, if we are going to change lets try and include everything.

>2) reserving 24 bytes, but that seems excessive and would look like:
>
>   LDEV-TYPE                   STATUS   VOLUME (VOLUME SET - GEN)
>  ----------                  -------- --------------------------
>12345-C23456789                MASTER
MEMBER1xxxxxxxxx(MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_
>SET-0)

Damn now those manufacturers want to create 24 byte model numbers, why?
Anyway, I think the model number is important I want to see the whole thing.
Maybe you can come up with shorter codes for the STATUS field like "MAS" for
MASTER and "MEM" for MEMBER and "SCR" for SCRATCH and "MMD" for MEMBER-MD
and so on. All the other fields you want to see the full text but, the
status could be abbreviated and everyone  would still know exactly what you
mean. This would free up enough bytes for those disc manufacturers to almost
make a run on sentence a model number...:-)


Sincerely,
Joshua Johnson
HP3000 Systems Manager
MicroWarehouse