On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 01:32:07 +0100, R.S. wrote:

>BTW: an "awful waste of storage" is MCU on EAS which is 21 cyl. (315
>trk). It is much more than 4kB and more than 4MB.

Not such a big deal for very large data sets, which are the most 
appropriate ones to go into the cylinder-managed space. When you 
have a quarter of a million cylinders, allocating space on increments 
of 21 cylinders isn't so bad, IMO.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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