Its one of those funny FBA devices that live on a 3390.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Tom Huegel <tehue...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now I feel stupid .. I was looking at the type FBA-512 and was off thinking > FBA(F=format??) I am going to blame it on the new dog, he kept me up all > night with his wimpering.. > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Mark Post <mp...@suse.com> wrote: > > > >>> 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/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
