Since almost all "3390" DASD resides on FBA arrayed disks, the software exists 
and is running in the control units to convert ECKD to FBA requests.

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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Clark Morris
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 8:29 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What was a 3314? (was: Whither VIO)

[Default] On 18 May 2016 19:31:34 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main 
[email protected] (Steve Thompson) wrote:

>> snip
>Makes one very glad to have things like thumb drives that we have 
>today. Now if I could just get one big enough to IPL z/OS...

Would 128 gigabytes be enough.  I think I have seen 256 GB.
The software to emulate ECKD would be interesting.

Clark Morris

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