On Wednesday, 08/29/2007 at 02:24 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We are trying to get a Hitachi Lightning 9970V DASD unit working. We can > attach the drives, CMS format them (with errors, but they appear to be > formatted), do DDR copies to them (no errors). The one thing we can't do > is write a label on them. When we run ICKDSF on the volumes we get:
CMS FORMAT? With errors? What errors? Your DITTO from below shows that the volume has NOT been formatted by CMS FORMAT as he doesn't write "IPL" on the volume. > INIT UNIT(7000) NVFY VOLID(NU7000) > ... > ICK10710I I/O ERROR OCCURRED ON DEVICE 7000 > ICK31006I VOLUME LABEL CREATION FAILED > ICK30003I FUNCTION TERMINATED. CONDITION CODE IS 12 > > HCPERP6321I DASD 7000 AN OPERATION WAS TERMINATED BECAUSE RECORD > HCPERP6321I 0000000003 WAS NOT FOUND > HCPERP6300I SENSE DATA FORMAT = 00 MSG CODE = 00 > HCPERP6301I CHANNEL COMMAND WORD COMMAND CODE = 86 > HCPERP6302I SEEK ADDRESS = 000000000000 > HCPERP6303I SENSE = 00090401 40000000 86000000 01000000 61495C03 That sense code says "record 3 on cyl 0 was not found". > HCPDAS537A DASD 7000 THE LABEL COULD NOT BE READ Re-format the volume. Try using cpfmtxa to format it instead of CMS. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
