Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:04:10 -0400 (EDT), Cameron Seay wrote: I have attached 3 mod-9s to a guest where Debian is the OS. Q DASD sees the new dasd, but of course Debian can't see it until it's in a Linux filesystem. We don't know how to format it while in Debian. Any suggestions? All steps

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-06 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
in debian as far as I remember it was just a matter of adding a new dasd to zipl.conf , running zipl and that’s it. Gregory Powiedziuk On Aug 6, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Mark Post mp...@suse.com wrote: On 8/6/2015 at 03:04 PM, Cameron Seay cws...@gmail.com wrote: I have attached 3 mod-9s to a

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-06 Thread Mark Post
On 8/6/2015 at 03:04 PM, Cameron Seay cws...@gmail.com wrote: I have attached 3 mod-9s to a guest where Debian is the OS. Q DASD sees the new dasd, but of course Debian can't see it until it's in a Linux filesystem. We don't know how to format it while in Debian. The same as any other

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-06 Thread Scott Rohling
Isn't dasdfmt, lsdasd, et al there? How did you install Debian? Are the ibm driver tools installed?Linux should be able to see it as soon as it's online. You may have to issue chccwdev -e for the disk if it doesn't happen automatically. cat /proc/partitions should give you some

Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-06 Thread Cameron Seay
I have attached 3 mod-9s to a guest where Debian is the OS. Q DASD sees the new dasd, but of course Debian can't see it until it's in a Linux filesystem. We don't know how to format it while in Debian. Any suggestions? -- For

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-06 Thread Grzegorz Powiedziuk
Can you see them when you do cat /proc/dasd/devices ? If not than first bring them online (chccwdev -e 0.0.) and then check again. If they are there, than you are ready to do a low level format with dasdfmt /dev/dasdX (/proc/dasd/devices will tell you which dasdX is that). After