SuSE 7.2 distribution unsure as to kernel level..... but it's pry a
july/august cut.
I run dasdfmt (with the -p) option per someone's suggestion and I get this
SuSE Instsys nokomis:/root # dasdfmt -n 0d18 -b 4096 -l L4D018 -p
--- snip to remove big blort of instructions ---
Press <ENTER> to continue and start dasdfmt -n 0d18 -b 4096 -l L4D018 -p:
Drive Geometry: 10017 Cylinders * 15 Heads = 150255 Tracks
I am going to format the device d18 in the following way:
Device number of device : 0xd18
Major number of device : 94
Minor number of device : 0
Labelling device : yes
Disk label : VOL1
Disk identifier : L4D018
Extent start (trk no) : 0
Extent end (trk no) : 150254
Compatible Disk Layout : yes
Blocksize : 4096
--->> ATTENTION! <<---
All data in the specified range of that device will be lost.
Type "yes" to continue, no will leave the disk untouched: yes
Formatting the device. This may take a while (get yourself a coffee).
cyl 10017 of 10017 |##################################################|
100%
Finished formatting the device.
This is what's running when it ends
SuSE Instsys nokomis:/root # ps -A
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:04 swapper
2 ? 00:00:00 kmcheck
3 ? 00:00:00 keventd
4 ? 00:00:02 ksoftirqd_CPU0
5 ? 00:00:00 kswapd
6 ? 00:00:00 kreclaimd
7 ? 00:00:00 bdflush
8 ? 00:00:00 kupdated
9 console 00:00:00 linuxrc
16 ? 00:00:01 klogd
19 ? 00:00:01 syslogd
112 ? 00:00:00 inetd
113 ? 00:00:00 portmap
122 ? 00:00:00 sshd
133 console 00:00:00 bash
137 ? 00:00:00 sshd
138 ttyp0 00:00:00 bash
142 ttyp0 00:00:00 dasd_eckd_mod
145 ttyp0 00:00:39 modprobe
147 ttyp0 00:00:00 bash
150 ttyp0 00:00:13 dasdfmt
151 ? 00:00:00 sshd
152 ttyp1 00:00:00 bash
158 ttyp1 00:00:00 ps
SuSE Instsys nokomis:/root #
I check the HMC console and I don't see any red flags. I see messages
saying that its formatting unit xxxxx - yyyy but that's just a progress
thing.
top had this to say about it
8:17pm up 45 min, 2 users, load average: 2.03, 2.02, 1.69
24 processes: 19 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.1% user, 69.0% system, 0.0% nice, 30.7% idle
Mem: 1026820K av, 51868K used, 974952K free, 0K shrd, 26996K
buff
Swap: 0K av, 0K used, 0K free 7480K
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
145 root 16 0 908 908 552 R 4.3 0.0 1:06 modprobe
150 root 18 0 604 604 516 R 3.5 0.0 0:40 dasdfmt
151 root 9 0 1968 1968 1544 R 0.1 0.1 0:00 sshd
162 root 10 0 1108 1108 924 R 0.1 0.1 0:00 top
1 root 8 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:04 swapper
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kmcheck
3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
4 root 19 19 0 0 0 RWN 0.0 0.0 0:02
ksoftirqd_CPU0
5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd
6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreclaimd
7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush
8 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated
9 root 9 0 1732 1728 1144 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 linuxrc
16 root 9 0 952 952 504 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 klogd
19 root 9 0 748 748 648 S 0.0 0.0 0:01 syslogd
112 root 9 0 608 608 536 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 inetd
113 bin 9 0 476 476 400 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 portmap
122 root 9 0 1120 1120 980 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 sshd
133 root 9 0 1480 1480 1248 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 bash
137 root 9 0 1968 1968 1544 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 sshd
138 root 9 0 1496 1492 1404 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 bash
142 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 dasd_eckd_mod
147 root 9 0 1528 1524 1424 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 bash
152 root 9 0 1496 1492 1252 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 bash
If anyone has a clue about this, I'm very interested.
