The real odd balls, 3340, 3344, 3370 & 3375's :-) 3340's had the coolest looking removable disk assembly.
I suspected that the 3344 was a code-hacked 3350, it just carved 4 70Mb disks out of the larger physical disk. Len Rugen University of Missouri Division of Information Technology Systems & Operations - Metrics & Automation Team ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Steve Thompson [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 6:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What was a 3314? (was: Whither VIO) 2314, 2419, 2311, these are just a few of the "IBM" DASD that I've had the pleasure of working with. I've forgotten the drum device numbers and the noodle snatcher model number. Regards, Steve Thompson On 05/16/2016 07:24 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > OK, the sleeping dog wants some attention. Before my first reply, I carefully > Googled device type 2314 to verify the number. Then I typed '3314' because > who has ever worked with DASD that started with something other than '33'? > 2314 remained valid in the IODEVICE macro long, long after the final one > disappeared into the sunset. And as I said, I was advised to use it for VIO > because of 'device architecture', whatever that meant. Track size, I guess, > from what others have posted. > > . > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-302-7535 Office > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Clark Morris > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 4:16 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: (External):Re: What was a 3314? (was: Whither VIO) > > [Default] On 16 May 2016 07:01:50 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main > [email protected] (Jerry Callen) wrote: > >> In the "Whither VIO" thread, J.O.Skip Robinson wrote: >> >>> In a previous life, we defined VIO (I believe) to device 3314 even >>> though we had none left on the floor >> >> That's a device type I've never heard of, and the Google knows not of. Could >> this be a typo for "2314"? > > I believe the OP meant 2314 which had 7294 bytes per track. It was a > removable disk. > > Clark Morris >> >> -- Jerry > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
