On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Tom Rae <[email protected]> wrote: > Not quite. Sounds like the DS8000 architecture allocates DASD in 3390 > mod1-sized extents, so requesting a 1114 cylinder DASD results in the > allocation of two 1113 cylinder extents. The first extent is fully utilized > as the first 1113 cylinders of the requested DASD, but only the first > cylinder of the second extent is used (as the last cylinder of the requested > DASD) and the other 1112 cylinders are allocated but unusable. > > (nb "extent" is used because it seems to fit, but it's probably not the > correct term...)
Ohhhhh...of course. I was thinking that 1113 gets you 1113, and 1114 gets you 2. Which of course made no sense (because it was wrong!). Thanks.
