Hi Roger,

I think you got some wrong info regarding the model 6 3390?
I know about 3390-2, 3390-3, 3390-9.
All 3390's have the same geometry - 56K tracks - it is just
the total capacity that increased.
But the important question here is why you want larger disks
to backup larger files?
You can define 4 files to ADSM,
 (Each one 2.835Gig - the capacity for 3390-3's - actually a little
smaller because of the VTOC), and then you will have a diskpool
of 4 X 2.8 Gig giving you 11.2 Gig of space to store your backup
data on. It is transparent to your backup client that it is going
to 4 physical 3390-3's.

Hope this answers your questions.

Regards
Christo Heuer
ABSA Bank
Johannesburg
South Africa




>As an ADSM admin I was lucky to hear my storage admin will give me a couple
>of 3390-6 drives (emc, in fact) so I have larger drives to allocate larger
>dasd volumes for database and disk pool. But - I failed to allocate more
>than 65k tracks. This is no real improvement (compared to 56k tracks in
>3390-3).
>
>Does anyone know if the size of the used esds vsam is limited by 65k tracks
>(as far as I know ADSM don't like secondary allocation)??
>Any idea how to have larger disk volumes to save larger files to disk??
>
>Thanks in advance..
>
>Roger Hohmann
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