I've only seen that when I've attempted to do an 'fdasd -a /dev/dasdx' on a disk that didn't have dasdfmt run on it yet... I've never seen dasdfmt complain..(why would it? it's going to format the disk and doesn't care what's there) only fdasd. Are you creating a partition on the disk?
Scott Rohling On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Daniel Tate <daniel.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are continually having a problem when it comes time in autoyast to > do a dasdfmt where it complains that the disks are not in z/OS format. > We are not using PAV (which was the prior problem). it is a mystery > to me and the mainframe guy who's been doing this for 30 years - has > anyone run into the same issue? This is urgent, so if anyone has any > insight please respond. The disks are owned to the appropriate user > (also tried system) and the cyls are formatted (also tried raw). > > Thank you very much. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
