Re: S36 to AS400 migration

["Steve Landess" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It has been a while, but I believe 2560 is correct for bytes/block on S/36 
storage...
-sjl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Draper" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: S36 to AS400 migration


> 2560 was my guess but I needed to know for sure.
>
> Thx,
>
> Jerry
>
> Douglas Handy wrote:
> > Jerry,
> >
> > I need to determine DASD requirements.  Their S36 has a capacity of
> > > 1,200,000 blocks.  How many bytes is this?
> >
> >
> > Blocks under SSP were ten sectors, each 256 bytes, so a block was 2560
> > bytes.
> > So that is basically 3GB of capacity.
> >
> > Stuff takes more room on the i5, but it shouldn't be too hard to have 
> > over
> > 3GB available on a new machine....
> >
> > Doug
>
>
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