Hello Alan, Thanks for the pointers.
No messages on the operator console. The VM SA TAPE with ICKDSF and DDR ipl without problems. This is the Q ALLOC q alloc page EXTENT EXTENT TOTAL PAGES HIGH % VOLID RDEV START END PAGES IN USE PAGE USED ------ ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ---- 430RES 0792 257 390 24120 767 829 3% 430W03 075C 1802 1901 18000 240 250 1% ------ ------ ---- SUMMARY 42120 1007 2% USABLE 42120 1007 2% Ready; T=0.01/0.01 10:37:16 I always put a user of $page$ in my directory with the page/direct/spool/tdisk/etc in them to help check for overlays. DISKMAP does not show overlaps but I will check more. I am sure that the complete volumes were CP FORMAT way back when we setup the system. I have asked the other system guy about the last test of the VSE SA tape. NOT SURE when it worked last. I am thinking that they tested it before jumping to the z890 but I need to verify. Finally, (you will like this) I am getting errors on the VSE/ESA side from the EMC dasd. EMC has indicated these are erroneous errors coming from a smoke detector sensor in the box that have never worked on this model of EMC. We are migrating to new DASD. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-588-4723 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ext. 40441 > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:26 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: HCPCLS174E using VSE SA util tape > > On Thursday, 07/20/2006 at 03:06 AST, "Edward M. Martin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We have a z890. z/VM 4.3 and VSE/ESA 2.6.1 > > > > We attempting to IPL from the VSE SA utility tape (under z/VM) > > I get > > > HCP174E Paging I/O error; IPL > failed > > > > Can anyone shield some light on this problem? > > > > The z/VM SA DSF/DDR tape works fine. > > Ed, when you issue the IPL command, CP places the "IPL simulator" into > your virtual machine. Well, before he does that he has to save the > original memory contents of the affected pages so they can be restored > after the IPL command has done its job. > > My guess is that your paging volumes have not been entirely CP formatted, > yet are allocated as PAGE. Or, if you're sharing the volume with > minidisks, you have an overlap or have not CP formatted the entire > minidisk. Or the volume is going bad (unlikely). In any case, CP's I/Os > are failing. There are probably error messages on the OPERATOR's console. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott