Chales,

2321 was a data cell (magnetic strip) hardly could be called DASD)
I don’t recall a 3314 . The removable 3340 (not sure the number anyone?)

Ed

> On May 16, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 2301, 2321.
> CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity
> 
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Steve Thompson <[email protected]> 
> Date: 05/16/2016  4:51 PM  (GMT-08:00) 
> 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.
>> 
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>> -----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
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