The doc says bytes 0 - 3 is cylinders bytes 0 -3 is FFF00000 and bytes 4 - 7 
000FF000 is tracks per cyl ? am I misreading misunderstanding the documentation 
  

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Mike Schwab
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 11:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: DEVTYPE INFO=DASD

> FFF00000 000FF000 00000100 08000000

x'FFF0' would be 65520 cylinders.  x'000F' would be 15 tracks per cylinder.  
Reasonable for a 3390-54.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Reichman Joseph <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was looking for the capability on a dasd device
>
>
> DEVTYPE (R6),(AREA,L'AREA),INFOLIST=ILIST2
>
> ILIST2   DEVTYPE INFO=DASD
>
> AREA     DS    XL16
>
> This was the data returned in area R15 = 0
>
> FFF00000 000FF000 00000100 08000000
>
>
>
> DASD  Returns 16 bytes as follows:
>
> Bytes 0-3 Number of cylinders on the device, excluding alternates. For a VIO 
> data set, this number is the number of simulated cylinders needed to contain 
> the data set.
>
> Bytes4-7 Number of tracks per cylinder.
>
>
> Seems to indicate over 4 million cylinders and over 100,000 tracks on the 
> volume ?
>
>
> Joe Reichman
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