>>> On 3/12/2013 at 02:45 PM, Tom Huegel <tehue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Excuse my ignorance, but what is "FBAF"? > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Pavelka, Tomas <tomas.pave...@ca.com>wrote: > >> We have been trying to format all minidisks from Linux only and this >> turned out to be problematic. I am looking for a solution that would let us >> stay in Linux without having to involve CMS format for every new minidisk. >> Let me first describe the problem: >> When there is a record on dasd that has incorrect cylinder in the count >> area, this leads to "record not found" errors when the dasd is brought >> online. Since the dasd needs to be online before the problem is fixed (by >> formatting) the only way around that I can see is to preformat in CMS. >> If new minidisks are regularly formatted and destroyed, it is possible to >> run into situation where part of the disk has the correct format and part >> has the cylinder number in the count area wrong. >> >> Here is a way to reproduce: >> >> >> 1) Create a minidisk and format it with CDL, e.g. >> >> MDISK FBAF 3390 4819 1000 VMBL2H WR
It's the MDISK device address. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
