Marcy,
I use ICKDSF to format all new DASD that is assigned to a VM LPAR, whether it's
a new purchase or transfer from z/OS. It might not be necessary, but it
doesn't hurt. I run eight format jobs in parallel using VM:Batch, so it
doesn't take very long.
Dennis
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-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf
Of Marcy Cortes
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 09:37
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: [IBMVM] ICKDSF format of new DASD
What is the current recommendation for new DASD purchases and ICKDSF CPVOL
FORMAT for disk to be used for Linux.
We've been formatting the whole thing. Once upon a time there was a DASD
driver bug that this helped avoid, but I'm sure that has been fixed before.
Marcy
