On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 08:48, James Melin wrote: > K. I've just gotten to the point where our VM guy is going to finally let > me USE vdisk for swap (took much convincing) and he assigned that device at > dev 300. > swapgen not withstanding, I've been unable to get linux to recognize the > device. I've tried adding it using an add command echoed to > /proc/dasd/devices and I get > > 0203(ECKD) at ( 94: 12) is dasdd : active at blocksize: 4096, 216000 > blocks, 843 MB > 0300(none) at ( 94: 16) is dasde : unknown
You need to load the FBA DASD driver. insmod dasd_fba, IIRC. If you want the best performance out of your VDISK, you need the DIAG driver too. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
