In
<77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca343c4e...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com>,
on 08/02/2010
   at 03:01 PM, Bill Fairchild <[email protected]> said:

>I assume this is how IBM did it before they had debugged the E4
>command.

Did IBM ever do device discovery before then?

>Of course, you also had to remember that there was one 230x DASD
>that IBM made that had around 96 or 100 "tracks" per cylinder (a
>drum, maybe?),

The 2301 and 2303 were drums; I don't recall the geometry.
 
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