On 16 Jan 2008 08:57:35 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >EMC announced DMX4 disk system ...without disks. Flash memory would be >used as a disk module. >Questions/observations: >1. End of magnetic platters ? >2. Another level of virtualization (or translation). Flash device >emulates disk module. Disk modules are used for CKD emulation. >3. Maybe there is no reason to force MVS to support FBA devices (as it >would become fading technology), it is more far sighted to implement >"technology of the future" - natively operated flash memory.
Au contraire. My USB key is FBA formatted in 512 byte sectors (I think it is one of the FAT formats available to Win 98 or earlier). FBA is oriented to both disk and even more so, solid state. There are a number of limitations in CKD that will be painful to eliminate and even if they are we are still left with a KLUDGE for which the phase out should have started 25 years ago. > > >Disclaimer: IMHO it is on topic. DMX4 is mainframe array. >-- >Radoslaw Skorupka >Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
