Edward Jaffe has now made the crucial point. Circumventions of any great need to know much about TRK and CYL issues are available (and in one form or another have long been available).
That said, the geometry of real DASD was never an intellectually challenging topic; and I grow ever more weary of this and other pleas to spare applications programmers--and often now sysprogs too--any need to know what they are doing and how to do it. I miss any sense of proportion. We were never dealing here with an arbitrary and cruel requirement that intellectually challenged Arsenal footballers master Pali and Prakrit in order to consult their rule books. (Indeed, and to the point, the three Arsenal footballers I have known well were not intellectually challenged.) John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
