Re: PDOS/3x0 on real hardware

Dave,

The 9335 is both the controller and the DASD ...

-A01 is the controller
-B01 are the drives (up to four) (850MB each)

Joe

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 8:13 AM 'Dave Wade' [email protected]
[hercules-390] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Joe,
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>    On what controller. All the 9335’s I have met were pure FBA, but its
> been a long time…
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> Dave
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> *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* 17 March 2019 12:57
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [hercules-390] PDOS/3x0 on real hardware
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> "However, this 9335 DASD is FBA, so
> not supported."
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> Says who?
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> With ICKDSF, you can initialize a 9335 as an emulated CKD device.
> Thereafter, it performs as a CKD device...
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> Joe
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> On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 7:10 AM kerravon86-/[email protected] [hercules-390] <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> ---In [email protected], <Mcguire@...> wrote :
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> 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.
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> Also I have successfully switched off EA
> and the S/370 build now uses 16 MiB.
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> > S/390 hardware at the museum. The first of the S/370s (a 9375) is
> > nearing runnable status; it has 9335 DASD.
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> However, this 9335 DASD is FBA, so
> not supported.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> BFN. Paul.
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