Mark Post wrote:
On 9/25/2008 at 8:46 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mary Elwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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I invoked YAST and I performed a dasdfmt on disk /dev/dasdh and I created
a partition /dev/dasdh1. FDASD failed for unknown reason was return from
YAST. I assumed it was because it was not an ECKD device. For some reason
I think I don*t need to format FBA/SCSI..
Both the dasdfmt and fdasd are unnecessary on an FBA device. When the device is
detected, the kernel automatically "creates" the single partition
Sometimes when I have problems with an FBA device (especially edev), and
I want to wipe it clean, I zero out the beginning of the LUN and fdisk
it, like so:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/dasdh bs=1M count=1
# fdisk /dev/dasdh
(n for new partition, p for primary, w to save and quit)
# mkfs... /dev/dasdh1
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Brad Hinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sr. Support Engineer Lead, System z
Red Hat, Inc.
(919) 754-4198
www.redhat.com/z
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