Thanks, John.

I guess I'll have to get some larger 2145 volumes and play around again. I 
tried SCSIDISC against our big volumes on a 2107, which are of varying 
sizes between 500GB and 1TB, and didn't notice any negative values. Weird, 
but I'll mess around with it and see what I can find.  Thanks for the 
heads up.

Regards,
            Eric

Eric Farman
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IBM Endicott, NY




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Eric,
large LUN that I referred to was a 957GB LUN in an IBM SVC 2145.  reported 
LUN size (bytes) was correct, but prefixed with a minus sign. 
 

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How large is large?  I can't put my hands on one larger than 70GB at the 
moment, and it looks fine.  Will look for the huge disks tomorrow to try 
them. 

As for the fields reported as "XXXXX," that's due to some kind of I/O 
error when trying to get a LUN to decribe itself.  This sometimes occurs 
because of an ACL restriction, as some DASD controllers will gladly tell 
us a LUN exists, but reject any I/O directed at it.  In those cases, 
description I/O such as the SCSI Inquiry or Read Capacity commands will 
fail, and we cannot fill in that information. 

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           Eric

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on some occasions SCSIDISC will report LUN_SIZE_(bytes) as a negative 
number. Seen that only for large LUNs. 
On other occasions some of the fields, LUN_SIZE too, will be reported as 
XXXXX?s 
  

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Compliments of Eric R. Farman, a sample of the SCSIDISC output:

_FCP_CH_ ______WWPN______ _____LUN_ID_____ _VENDOR_ PROD MODL _SERIAL_ 
CODE _BLK_SIZE_ _DISKBLKS_ __LUN_SIZE_(bytes)__
0000B098 5005076300CA04DA 5100000000000000 IBM      2105 F20  10013262 
.178        512    7617216           3900014592
0000B098 5005076300CA04DA 5101000000000000 IBM      2105 F20  10113262 
.178        512    7617216           3900014592
0000B098 5005076300CA04DA 5102000000000000 IBM      2105 F20  10213262 
.178        512    7617216           3900014592
0000B098 5005076300CA04DA 5103000000000000 IBM      2105 F20  10313262 
.178        512    7617216           3900014592
0000B098 5005076300CA04DA 5104000000000000 IBM      2105 F20  10413262 
.178        512     195328            100007936
0000B098 5005076300CA04DA 5105000000000000 IBM      2105 F20  10513262 
.178        512     195328            100007936
0000B098 5005076300CA04DA 5106000000000000 IBM      2105 F20  10613262 
.178        512     195328            100007936
0000B098 5005076300CA04DA 5107000000000000 IBM      2105 F20  10713262 
.178        512    1953152           1000013824
0000B098 5005076300CA04DA 5108000000000000 IBM      2105 F20  10813262 
.178        512    1953152           1000013824
0000B098 5005076300CA04DA 5109000000000000 IBM      2105 F20  10913262 
.178        512    1953152           1000013824
0000B098 5005076300CA04DA 510A000000000000 IBM      2105 F20  10A13262 
.178        512    1953152           1000013824
0000B098 5005076300CA04DA 510B000000000000 IBM      2105 F20  10B13262 
.178        512    1953152           1000013824

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Steve Wilkins
IBM z/VM Development 

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