Abstract: A cached DASD peripheral subsystem is operated in a so-called non-synchronous mode, that is, device operations are not synchronous to the host processor operations. A rate-changing buffer is interposed between the channel attachment for the host processor and the DASD, preferably having a storage capacity for one full DASD track of data. The rotational position for the data records being transferred in either direction, i.e., write or read, are kept in the rate-changing buffer to be kept with the record being transferred through the rate-changing buffer. Each time the peripheral subsystem supplies ending status to the host processor and all records to be transferred are retentively stored in DASD, a record control field and the rotational position of the last record transferred in a chain of commands being transferred the rotational position of such last record, its type, and other control data are stored in a control store separate from any cache directory or track directory in cache.