Peter, I am running EMC disk array, formatted with 3390-3 disks. Some of the information I saw below I don't see when I do a CPFMTXA format or ICKDSF label. I did notice that you were using the INIT function which I don't use. You could try what I have above just to get the CP format with a label and then try the ICKDSF INIT to get a VSE type VTOC written where you want it and put a VSE type label on it.
The following message below I don't understand: ICK04000I DEVICE IS IN SIMPLEX STATE Just a quick look, good luck. Loren Charnley, Jr. IT Systems Engineer Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (704) 847-6961 Ext. 3327 (704) 814-3327 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 2:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: DASD Problems Hi, We are trying to get a Hitachi Lightning 9970V DASD unit working. We can attach the drives, CMS format them (with errors, but they appear to be formatted), do DDR copies to them (no errors). The one thing we can't do is write a label on them. When we run ICKDSF on the volumes we get: init unit(7000) nvfy volid(nu7000) INIT UNIT(7000) NVFY VOLID(NU7000) ICK00700I DEVICE INFORMATION FOR 7000 IS CURRENTLY AS FOLLOWS: PHYSICAL DEVICE = 3390 STORAGE CONTROLLER = 3990 STORAGE CONTROL DESCRIPTOR = E9 DEVICE DESCRIPTOR = 0A ADDITIONAL DEVICE INFORMATION = 4A001B35 TRKS/CYL = 15, # PRIMARY CYLS = 3339 ICK04000I DEVICE IS IN SIMPLEX STATE ICK00091I 7000 NED= 2105. .HTC.14.000000023257 ICK091I 7000 NED= 2105. .HTC.14.000000023257 ICK003D REPLY U TO ALTER VOLUME 7000 CONTENTS, ELSE T u U ICK10710I I/O ERROR OCCURRED ON DEVICE 7000 CSW = 762290 0E40005C CCW = 1D762220 4000005C FILEMASK = 18 SENSE = 00090401 00000000 1D000000 01000000 67094C02 00F00F00 00004CE0 00000000 ICK31006I VOLUME LABEL CREATION FAILED ICK30003I FUNCTION TERMINATED. CONDITION CODE IS 12 14:06:24 08/29/07 HCPERP6321I DASD 7000 AN OPERATION WAS TERMINATED BECAUSE RECORD HCPERP6321I 0000000003 WAS NOT FOUND HCPERP6300I SENSE DATA FORMAT = 00 MSG CODE = 00 HCPERP6301I CHANNEL COMMAND WORD COMMAND CODE = 86 HCPERP6302I SEEK ADDRESS = 000000000000 HCPERP6303I SENSE = 00090401 40000000 86000000 01000000 61495C03 HCPERP6303I 00F00F00 00004CE1 00000000 HCPERP6304I IRB = 00C04017 19320650 0E000050 00800009 HCPERP6305I USERID = MAINT HCPERP2216I CHANNEL PATH ID = 70 HCPDAS537A DASD 7000 THE LABEL COULD NOT BE READ A DITTO disk browse shows this for the disk: DITTO/ESA for VM DB - Disk Browse CYL-HD-REC 00000 00 000 Col 1 Format CHAR Volume 7000 3390 Search limit * Rec Type Len 1...5...10....5...20....5...30....5...40....5...50....5...60 ************** Begin of track Cyl:0 Hd:0 Reltrk:0 ************************** 0 CNT 8 ........ DATA 8 ........ 1 CNT 8 ........ KEY 4 IPL1 DATA 24 ........................ 2 CNT 8 ........ KEY 4 IPL2 DATA 144 .... ....... ................................................ ************** End of data on track ******************************************* ************** Begin of track Cyl:0 Hd:1 Reltrk:1 ************************** 0 CNT 8 ........ Which confirms the record 3 not found message. Our IOCP definition for the 9970V is: CHPID PATH=70,TYPE=CNC CHPID PATH=71,TYPE=CNC CHPID PATH=72,TYPE=CNC CHPID PATH=73,TYPE=CNC CTL70 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=7001,PATH=(70,71),UNITADD=((00,256)), * CUADD=0,UNIT=2105 CTL71 CNTLUNIT CUNUMBR=7101,PATH=(72,73),UNITADD=((00,256)), * CUADD=1,UNIT=2105 IODEVICE ADDRESS=(7000,256),CUNUMBR=(7001,7101), * UNIT=3390 Almost forgot, z/VM 3.1.0 service level 0402 running on an MP2000. ICKDSF release 17, module dated 2006-11-07. We specifically want to run as 2105 to flush out potential problems with using 2105s with VSE before we (hopefully) move to a z9. Hitachi says it is a problem with our definition of the drives. 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