Re: MDISK maximum FBA blocks for either FBA-512 or 9336

2006-07-18 Thread Mike Lee
From: Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] The z/VM 4.3 manual (why are you looking in the 3.1 book?) specifically says that 4M blocks is for virtual disk in storage. There should actually be two lines in that table: one for V-DISK and one for FB-512 (equivalent to the largest 9336, a mod 20). So,

Re: MDISK maximum FBA blocks for either FBA-512 or 9336

2006-07-18 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 07/18/2006 at 11:08 MST, Mike Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 3.1 manual was quoted since it goes back even further than a 4.3 manual. :-) But is never correct for a later release of VM. I thought that since V-DISK in a 4.3 system can be 4194296, I erroneanously thought that

Re: MDISK maximum FBA blocks for either FBA-512 or 9336

2006-07-18 Thread Imler, Steven J
/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 02:02 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: MDISK maximum FBA blocks for either FBA-512 or 9336 On Tuesday, 07/18/2006 at 11:08 MST, Mike Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 3.1 manual

Re: MDISK maximum FBA blocks for either FBA-512 or 9336

2006-07-18 Thread Alan Altmark
On Tuesday, 07/18/2006 at 02:08 AST, Imler, Steven J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about ATTACH or DEDICATE or DEVNO ... ? Wouldn't those be viable workarounds as long as the guest can deal with the device on its own? According to the I/O team, z/VM 4.3 will not VARY ON an FBA device with

MDISK maximum FBA blocks for either FBA-512 or 9336

2006-07-14 Thread Mike Lee
Greetings, I would like to create a very large FBA disk (about 3,000,000 FBA 512 blocks) on a FLEX system with z/VM 4.3 to accommodate a z/VSE 3.1 system residence volume. However it appears that there is an artificial or real limit in the DIRECTXA command since I get the following error