I got you. Thanks!
Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS & z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivica Brodaric Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:22 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: WAIT STATE CMS knows about the formatted section of the disk, as Alan explained above. However, don't get cocooned into thinking that CMS knows everything. It certainly doesn't know that you made an error. If you went to reformat that disk with CMS's FORMAT command, you would have destroyed not only the intended portion (in your case 120 cylinders) but all 158 cylinders that you defined as a size. That means that you would have reformatted the first 38 cylinders of a minidisk that follows MAINT CF1 (which is probably MAINT CF2) and you would not know it until you IPL that system and try to access the MAINT CF2 or do QUERY CPDISK and see that MAINT CF2 is not on the list. So, in this respect, you *were* lucky. Ivica Brodaric
