Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
Behalf Of Schuh, Richard > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 4:18 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: DASD cylinders > > > Interesting problem - a system in which 4 > 7. Surely there is a >parallel universe somewhere ... >

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-09 Thread Alan Ackerman
That use of "orthogonal" is common in computer science. Axes at right ang les ("orthogonal") are used to represent independent variables. These variables can be manipulat ed independently. So in this sense "orthogonal" and "independent" are similar. But in computer sc ience they talk about "orth

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-08 Thread RPN01
I feel very vindicated. -- .~.Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation /V\RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW / ( ) \ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ^^-^^ - "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practi

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-08 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:57:24 -0600, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Brian Nielsen wrote: > >> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:57:31 -0600, Adam Thornton >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I'll give you a dollar if you can show me a base in which 54 is more >>> than t

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-08 Thread Rob van der Heij
On 3/8/07, Jim Bohnsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *I give up. Don't... The books say "orthogonal" is about "a right angle" or the product being zero. So I guess the dependency between model number and the number of cylinders makes sense when you come from the right angle ;-) Alan Altmark w

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Bohnsack
I'm glad that, as a struggling math major in college in the mid-60's, I went into computers instead of trying to keep up with higher math such as the number of cylinders on a disk. I thought that an orthogon was a type of crooked 4-sided shape but Google says: '*Orthogonal*' means mutually ind

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 03/07/2007 at 09:32 EST, "Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was fixing an exec with this just yesterday and ran into the same problem. I > thought I had an easy solution those months ago by altering 3390-0A to 3390-3 > and 3390-0C to 3390-9. Then the 3390-27'

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Rick Troth
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does Hercules emulate 2311's ?? On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Dave Wade wrote: > Yes, its fine with smaller DASD. It will also emulate > larger than normal FBA. However there are some issues > with larger devices, when the file used to contain the > image goes over 2GB. N

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Rick Troth
> > We've just been honoring the 3390 all these years by trying to do things > > they would have done them. Had FBA been more popular at the time of the > > real 3390's, we might be seeing 3350 mod 81's instead. Maybe that would be 3370 mod 81? Or 9336 model something? On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, David

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Dave Wade
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does Hercules emulate 2311's ?? > > Yes, its fine with smaller DASD. It will also emulate larger than normal FBA. However there are some issues with larger devices, when the file used to contain the image goes over 2GB. __

OT: New Math (was Re: DASD cylinders)

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:18:14 -0800, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >Guess it should have been a problem involving a 3 digit number with 0 >for the middle digit. Then, a base of -17 would be equivalent to a base >of +17. True, but that doesn't mean there's no solution. Are you willin

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Schuh, Richard
Send it to him via e-mail :-) Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:57 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DASD cylinders On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:00

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Schuh, Richard wrote: Guess it should have been a problem involving a 3 digit number with 0 for the middle digit. Then, a base of -17 would be equivalent to a base of +17. Well, now we know what base we're calculating in where 54 = 3 * 27, which incidentally a

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Brian Nielsen wrote: On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:57:31 -0600, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll give you a dollar if you can show me a base in which 54 is more than two and a half times as big as 27. A long time ago I read a mathematical paper on some inter

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Schuh, Richard
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 9:01 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DASD cylinders On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:57:31 -0600, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'll give you a dollar if you can show me a base in which 54 is more >than two and a half times as big as 2

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 15:57:31 -0600, Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'll give you a dollar if you can show me a base in which 54 is more >than two and a half times as big as 27. Converting to mathematical terms: j=54 k=27 n=2.5 You want j/k > n, where j and k are in base b. Expressin

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Schuh, Richard
return maxcyl end if msg ^= '' then say msg exit mrc Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:32 AM To: I

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Bates, Bob [CCC-OT_IT]
riginal Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 8:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DASD cylinders Right, there's the details query. But the issue is do those cyl values make the monitor data so t

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> How then do I have actual volumes on my system of 32,760 cyls. > That's not divisible by 1113 (ds8000 here). Marcy: Sorry, I was not clear. Allocation is in multiples of 1113 cylinders. You can make a volume whatever size you want, but if it is not a multiple of 1113 cylinders, the remainder up

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Bohnsack
No, the 2311 "pack" was 7.25 MB. I may have some doc at home that has some geometry info. Jim Tom Duerbusch wrote: Wow... 9 MB per pack. We'll never use it all . And, they are demountable too. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (607) 255-1760 [EMAIL P

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
en that would read a table of addresses and matching in the correct device type would be useful. Marcy Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System 03/06/2007 02:47 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: DASD c

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread David Kreuter
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System 03/06/2007 02:47 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: DASD cylinders That's what I think too. Mod 27 and Mod 54 don't exist. I just read the ds8000 doc, yo

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread pfa
:47 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: DASD cylinders That's what I think too. Mod 27 and Mod 54 don't exist. I just read the ds8000 doc, you can choose 3390 Standard Mod 3, 3390 Standard Mod 9, or 3390 Custom Volume. Velocity, if

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread pfa
Does Hercules emulate 2311's ?? RPN01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System 03/06/2007 02:00 PM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: DASD cylinders Glad to know that other?s memorys work no bette

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Richards.Bob
rch 06, 2007 4:19 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DASD cylinders The "mod 27" moniker was selected because the 32,760 size was "roughly" three times a mod 9. The mod 54 is "roughly" three times the mod 27. It would have been too hard to allocate a "3390 mo

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread McKown, John
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thornton Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 1:58 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DASD cylinders On Mar 6, 2007, at 3:35 PM, RPN01 wrote: New m

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Richards.Bob
2007 4:58 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DASD cylinders On Mar 6, 2007, at 3:35 PM, RPN01 wrote: New math. I'll give you a dollar if you can show me a base in which 54 is more than two and a half times as big as 27. Adam LEGAL DISCLAIMER The information transmitted

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Schuh, Richard
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DASD cylinders On Mar 6, 2007, at 3:35 PM, RPN01 wrote: New math. I'll give you a dollar if you can show me a base in which 54 is more than two and a half times as big as 27. Adam

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 6, 2007, at 3:35 PM, RPN01 wrote: New math. I'll give you a dollar if you can show me a base in which 54 is more than two and a half times as big as 27. Adam

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread RPN01
New math. -- .~.Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation /V\RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW / ( ) \ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ^^-^^ - "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are differe

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 6, 2007, at 3:18 PM, RPN01 wrote: The “mod 27” moniker was selected because the 32,760 size was “roughly” three times a mod 9. The mod 54 is “roughly” three times the mod 27. Two times, I hope, or it woulda been a "mod 81", right? (And isn't the 54 just less than 64Kcyls ?) Is t

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread RPN01
e are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." > From: Marcy Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: The IBM z/VM Operating System > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:00:38 -0600 > To: > Conversation: [IBMVM] DASD cylinders > Subject: Re: DASD

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
How then do I have actual volumes on my system of 32,760 cyls. That's not divisible by 1113 (ds8000 here). Marcy Cortes "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy,

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Jim Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> That's what I think too. Mod 27 and Mod 54 don't exist. I just > read the ds8000 doc, you can choose 3390 Standard Mod 3, 3390 > Standard Mod 9, or 3390 Custom Volume. Marcy: > On the DS8000 family, you can allocate any number of cylinders > you want, but they must be in multiples of 1113 (a 33

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
That's what I think too. Mod 27 and Mod 54 don't exist. I just read the ds8000 doc, you can choose 3390 Standard Mod 3, 3390 Standard Mod 9, or 3390 Custom Volume. Velocity, if you are listening, question, any way of seeing the cyl counts in any of the screens for "custom" volumes? Marcy Corte

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Stephen Frazier
3390 model 1, 3 and 9 were real devices that were the same except for the number of cylinders. After RAID came along everyone stopped making real devices. Model 27 and 54 never existed. They were emulated model 9's with more cylinders. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes there are model 27 and 54 as w

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Wow... 9 MB per pack. We'll never use it all . And, they are demountable too. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/6/2007 1:00 PM >>> Glad to know that other's memorys work no better than mine. We should all switch to emulated 2311's and be done with it. -- .~.Robert

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread RPN01
Glad to know that other¹s memorys work no better than mine. We should all switch to emulated 2311¹s and be done with it. -- .~.Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation /V\RO-OC-1-13 200 First Street SW / ( ) \ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 ^^-^^ -

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread William Munson
so much for MY memory David Boyes wrote: the 3370 was CKD the 3375 was FBA and the 3380 was back to CKD and the 3390 changed the bytes per track but stayed CKD You've got the 3375 and 3370 reversed. 3375 was CKD.

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread David Boyes
> the 3370 was CKD > the 3375 was FBA > and the 3380 was back to CKD > and the 3390 changed the bytes per track but stayed CKD You've got the 3375 and 3370 reversed. 3375 was CKD.

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Rich Smrcina
The 3370 was FBA, we used them when I worked at Aldrich Chemical. The 3310 was also FBA. William Munson wrote: If I remember correctly the 3370 was CKD the 3375 was FBA and the 3380 was back to CKD and the 3390 changed the bytes per track but stayed CKD all required conversion to move from o

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 6, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Marcy Cortes wrote: 32760 on a mod 27. The 27 is to a 9 as the 9 is to a 3. :) Not really. 3339 * 3 = 10017. 10017 * 3 = 30051 and 30051 <> 32760. I think it was ICKDSF support when I reported a strange message that said they were really all 9's, just o

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Marcy Cortes
> 32760 on a mod 27. The 27 is to a 9 as the 9 is to a 3. :) Not really. 3339 * 3 = 10017. 10017 * 3 = 30051 and 30051 <> 32760. I think it was ICKDSF support when I reported a strange message that said they were really all 9's, just of different sizes Which kind of goes along with wh

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread William Munson
If I remember correctly the 3370 was CKD the 3375 was FBA and the 3380 was back to CKD and the 3390 changed the bytes per track but stayed CKD all required conversion to move from or to. Bill Munson IT Specialist Office of Information Technology State of New Jersey (609) 984-4065 President MVM

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
I used the 9332 and 9335. $DASD$ CONSTS mentions 3310 also. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 1:01 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DASD cylinders > We've j

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread David Boyes
> We've just been honoring the 3390 all these years by trying to do things > they would have done them. Had FBA been more popular at the time of the > real 3390's, we might be seeing 3350 mod 81's instead. Had MVS been able to cope with FBA, rather. FBA was plenty popular with the non-MVS crowd.

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Adam Thornton
On Mar 6, 2007, at 11:53 AM, David Boyes wrote: 32760 on a mod 27. The 27 is to a 9 as the 9 is to a 3. :) Now, if the mod 27 left Chicago traveling east at 54 mph for 9 hours, and the mod 9 left Chicago traveling west at 3 mph for 21 hours, which fish first needed the bicycle? (Sorry. Never pos

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread David Boyes
> 32760 on a mod 27. The 27 is to a 9 as the 9 is to a 3. :) Now, if the mod 27 left Chicago traveling east at 54 mph for 9 hours, and the mod 9 left Chicago traveling west at 3 mph for 21 hours, which fish first needed the bicycle? (Sorry. Never post on antihistamines. It's all ever so surreal

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread RPN01
t; Reply-To: The IBM z/VM Operating System Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:17:23 -0500 To: Subject: Re: DASD cylinders 32760 on a mod 27. The 27 is to a 9 as the 9 is to a 3. :) MA On 3/6/07, Ed Zell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> > How many cylinders in a m

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Stracka, James (GTI)
Yes there are model 27 and 54 as well as 1, 3 and 9. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:03 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: DASD cylinders How many cylinders in a mod 9? Is t

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
32760 on a mod 27. The 27 is to a 9 as the 9 is to a 3. :) MA On 3/6/07, Ed Zell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How many cylinders in a mod 9? There are 10,017 cylinders on a 3390-9 (3339*3). I am not sure about the other ones you mention. Ed Zell (309) 674-8255 x-107 [EMAIL PROTECTED] . CO

Re: DASD cylinders

2007-03-06 Thread Ed Zell
> How many cylinders in a mod 9? There are 10,017 cylinders on a 3390-9 (3339*3). I am not sure about the other ones you mention. Ed Zell (309) 674-8255 x-107 [EMAIL PROTECTED] . CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE: This communication, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individu