In <03cf01cb399d$fdb1d590$f91580...@net>, on 08/11/2010 at 04:41 PM, "William H. Blair" <wmhbl...@comcast.net> said:
>According to a paper in the IBM Systems Journal, Volume 25 Issue 3.4 >(1986) on pages 274-305, titled "Impact of memory systems on computer > architecture and system organization" --. >> A sector on a modern 3380 disk is about 512 bytes long Thanks. The context seems to be RPS, and there's nothing there to indicate whether that is correlated to the cell structure on the track. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html