Hello from Gregg C Levine 'dead penguin'? How so? Can any of you define that term? Do you mean when the system will not IPL? Or what? And you need to redo some things? Or what? ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Rob van der Heij > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 11:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] /proc/dasd/devices > > At 22:18 25-09-02, Nix, Robert P. wrote: > > >Am I understanding correctly that you could not define a new single address, build > the dasd there, set it off, detach it and attach another new device at the same address, > and then set the address back on? > > That way it works. One point is you have to re-use the same virtual > address each time. This is harder to program if you have multiple > processes running that use the feature and try to find out what > minor number was assigned. > > And yes, this is a cool way to access the filesystem of a dead > penguin to repair something (we even run rpm with --root to it)
