Re: PDOS/3x0 on real hardware

"However, this 9335 DASD is FBA, so
not supported."

Says who?

With ICKDSF, you can initialize a 9335 as an emulated CKD device.
Thereafter, it performs as a CKD device...

Joe

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 7:10 AM kerravon86-/[email protected] [hercules-390] <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> ---In [email protected], <Mcguire@...> wrote :
>
> Ok, good news. I have updated PDOS so that
> although it still uses blocks of 18452, those
> blocks can be put onto any device type, e.g.
> I tested with 3350 disks.
>
> Also I have successfully switched off EA
> and the S/370 build now uses 16 MiB.
>
> > S/390 hardware at the museum. The first of the S/370s (a 9375) is
> > nearing runnable status; it has 9335 DASD.
>
> However, this 9335 DASD is FBA, so
> not supported.
>
> Regardless, I'm now in a position to generate
> any sort of CKD disk drive and terminal type
> for the I/O gen. So let me know what you
> would like and I'll generate them. I suggest
> we move discussion to the hercules-os380
> group because no-one ever accuses me of
> being off-topic there.
>
> What I would like to work on next is to
> create an EBCDIC ANSI terminal using a
> PC so that micro-emacs can run on real
> hardware. So I'd like to pick up that
> discussion over there.
>
> BFN. Paul.
> 
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