Re: PDOS/3x0 on real hardware

I'm pretty sure thats what I said...

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

If you want to ding me for not saying "after you flip the microcode
switch", OK I'll accept that.

Joe

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 9:14 AM Ivan Warren [email protected]
[hercules-390] <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Le 3/17/2019 à 3:07 PM, Joe Monk [email protected] [hercules-390] a
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> > I dont know ... its done in microcode...
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> > "To convert 9313, 9332, or 9335 devices to usable CKD devices, you
> > must have loaded the correct microcode level. For more information,
> > contact your IBM service representative.
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> > If the emulated device has never been initialized after conversion to
> > CKD emulation, the device is unusable. To avoid unpredictable results,
> > run a medial INIT before running any other command."
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> > Joe
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> Ok,
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> ICKDSF isn't turning the FBA into a CKD... It just means that once you
> have turned your FBA into a CKD (by means of an external maintenance
> function), you should format your DASDs...
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> --Ivan
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