I tried using raw logical volumes a while ago and had the same troubles. I seem to remember finding a document which stated that raw disk access was not supported on Linux.
...deon --- Have you looked at the A/NZ Tivoli User Group website? http://www.tuganz.org Deon George, IBM Tivoli Software Engineer, IBM Australia Office: +61 3 9626 6058, Fax: +61 3 9626 6622, Mobile: +61 412 366 816, IVPN +70 66058 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ibm.com/tivoli "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/05/2004 12:28:26 AM: > I tried some more but still no luck > > tried as suggested with the following (same)result > > 05/02/2004 03:31:24 ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command: > DEFINE VOLUME > PM pool01 /dev/raw/raw1 > 05/02/2004 03:31:24 ANR9999D blkdisk.c(1276): ThreadId<31> Disk > /dev/raw/raw1 > PM is an unsupported file type - mode flags = 21A4. > Callchain of previous message: 0x08793053 > outDiagf+0x203 > <- 0x08094459 OpenDisk+0x2f9 <- 0x08093e0d > DiskServerT > hread+0x2d <- 0x0809c53f StartThread+0x8f <-0x4005d020 > *UNKNOWN* <- 0x40139eca *UNKNOWN* <- > 05/02/2004 03:31:24 ANR2404E DEFINE VOLUME: Volume /dev/raw/raw1 is not > PM available
