well sort of. our intrepid storage person ran the jcl at the end of this email to initialize dasd. to my chagrin, it included the three physical volumes in a linux logical volume group. is there any hope of recreating the vtoc and reliably rescuing the data?
//DISKINT1 JOB (C110,2,000,SYS,22822,K),'CARTWRIGHT 3/A',CLASS=S, // MSGCLASS=Q,NOTIFY=U22822 /*JOBPARM R=3A //* $ACFJ219 ACF2 ACTIVE OKDHSJES //*********************************************************** //* //* JCL IN U22822.DSF.CNTL //* PACK MUST BE VARRIED OFF LINE //* //************************************************************ //SCRATCH EXEC PGM=ICKDSF //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=$ //SYSIN DD * INIT UNIT(1411) /* INITIALIZES DISK PACK SHORT VERS */ + VOLID(DA1411) /* WRITES VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER */ + NOCHECK /* WRITES OVER ALL EXISTING DATA */ + NOVERIFY /* BYPASS VERIFY VOL SER OWNER ID */ + NOVALIDATE /* BYPASS VALIDATE */ + VTOC(0,1,674) /* VTOC FOR MANY RDS DATASETS AT 674 TRKS */ + INDEX(45,0,90) /* INDEX AT CYL 45 TRACK 0 LENGTH 90 TRKS */ /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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