> I've never seen "accepted" as a state. IBM guys: Any ideas?
A dasd device is in state "accepted" after the disable ioctl. This is done by dasdfmt, it first disables the device, then formats each track and reenables it after writing the default partition table. > Invalidate first track... > dasdfmt: (invalidate first track) IOCTL BIODASDFMT failed. (Invalid > argument) Something went wrong with invalidation of the first track. The ioctl returned -EINVAL as it seems, and dasdfmt didn't reenable the device. So the device is "stuck" in state accepted. Strange, which kernel version and which s390-tools version are you using ? blue skies, Martin Linux/390 Design & Development, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH Schönaicherstr. 220, D-71032 Böblingen, Telefon: 49 - (0)7031 - 16-2247 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
