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Mass storage devices overview

What is the Storage Device Interface (SDI)?
    What are target drivers?
    What are HBA drivers?

Physical devices

Device drivers, special files and the device database

Mass storage device names
    Hard disks
    Tape drives
        Retensioning and rewinding
    CD-ROM drives
    WORM drives
    Medium changers

Managing mass storage devices and media
    Suggestions for managing storage devices
    Displaying information about devices
    Displaying information about media
    Formatting hard disks
    Checking a corrupt filesystem
    Managing multipath I/O environments
        Managing ghost names in multipath I/O environments
    Adding or removing hardware controllers
    Creating disk partitions and slices
        Hard disk partitioning
        Defining slices
    Adding hard disks
    Adding tape drives
    Hot adding or removing SCSI storage devices
    Hot-plugable controllers
    Removing old disk addresses after moving a disk
    Expanding swap space

Copying data on mass storage media
    Copying files from hard disk to hard disk
    Copying directory contents from hard disk to tape
    Copying files from tape to hard disk