Reichman Joseph wrote:

>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    

What docs? Could you be kind to give us the URL of that source of above info 
and docs?

> I was looking for the capability on a dasd device 
> DEVTYPE (R6),(AREA,L'AREA),INFOLIST=ILIST2 
> ILIST2   DEVTYPE INFO=DASD 
> AREA     DS    XL16 

Hmmm, interesting application of that useful macro. I must try out this little 
gem next week on my z/OS v2.1 sandbox when I'm returning to my bread and butter 
work... ;-)

> This was the data returned in area R15 = 0 
> FFF00000 000FF000 00000100 08000000 

On what z/OS level were you trying to try out that Assembler snippet? How did 
you obtained the contents of that R15? Via a dump or a MVC or something else?


>Mike Schwab wrote:

>> FFF00000 000FF000 00000100 08000000 
>x'FFF0' would be 65520 cylinders.  x'000F' would be 15 tracks per cylinder.  
>Reasonable for a 3390-54. 
 
Indeed.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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