This raises another question. Now that all modern DASD is some flavor of 3380 or 3390 geometry emulated via RAID, why is it neccessary to emulate the gaps between blocks when writing blocks to a track? Since the microcode is emulating track size and cylinders etc, why not allow full utilization of the tracksize regardless of block size? or do access methods have calculations built in for allowing for the gaps?
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