The following CP command displays the size of a DASD device.

CP Q DASD DETAILS rdev
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schuh, Richard
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:14 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: support mod-27
> 
> This is one of those things that would be a nice-to-have 
> addition to the reply from a QUERY rdev or QUERY DASD vser 
> command. It undoubtedly is not worth modifying the command 
> just for this, but could be easily added when other 
> modifications are being made to the command. 
> 
> I have an EXEC that I use to extract the size of a DASD 
> device from the RDEV and display it. I will post it if anyone 
> wants it. Caveat: We have only 3390-03 and 3390-09 FBA DASD, 
> so nothing has been done to verify the results on other devices.
> 
> Regards,
> Richard Schuh
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Behalf Of Kris Buelens
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:45 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: support mod-27
> > 
> > 
> > I think it does
> > 
> > A couple of ideas to find it out experimentally:
> > - have a look at $DASD$ CONSTS S, it list maximum sizes of all 
> > supported DASDs
> > - just try: add a minidisk with the size of a mdl 27 and 
> run DIRECTXA,
> >   not supported if DIRECTXA complains about the size.
> > 
> > Kris,
> > IBM Belgium, VM customer support
> > 
> > The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> wrote on
> > 2006-10-03 22:32:42:
> > 
> > > Does zVM 5.1 support or recognize a mod-27?
> > 
> 

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