On Wednesday, 04/01/2009 at 09:56 EDT, Scott Rohling <scott.rohl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you dedicating/attaching volumes to this guest? If they are minidisks, > then you've been given full pack minidisks which include cylinder 0 (note > the 10017 size) .. and Linux is formatting the dasd label.. > > If they are dedicated volumes - then I'm not sure how it's going to act from > a z/VM point of view in terms of a valid VTOC.
z/VM doesn't care about the VTOC. All we care about is the volser. CPFMTXA places a VTOC on a volume simply to keep z/OS a z/VSE from allocating datasets on the volume (and it is part of a VOL1 standard label). The interesting part of Bobby's post is: > > After formatting the device under VM with cpfmtxa and > > examining the vtoc with IEHLIST, it is as expected, it tells me there is a > > permanent I/O error. Bobby: It isn't clear to me what is telling you there is a permanent I/O error. IEHLIST? Linux? What was the I/O error? Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
