On Friday, 10/26/2007 at 09:39 EDT, "Anne D. Crabtree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a mod 3 that is known to VM: > > DASD 1472 LX1472 > > I want it to be a mdisk on MAINT and have all my linux instances link to it. > > I formatted LX1472 with CPFMTXA. > > It is not in the User_Volume_List but I added it for next ipl. > > I tried attaching 1472 to SYSTEM, but when I try to access the vdev 1472, it > says it?s in OS format.
1. ATTACH 1472 TO MAINT 2. Using CPFMTXA, allocate the entire volume as PERM and label the volume. It is not necessary to *format* the volume unless there is residual data on it that you wish to erase OR you are going to use it to contain CP data (spool, paging, parm, ...). Remember that the guest will turn around and format it for its own use (whether Linux or CMS) and there's no point in formatting the volume twice! (And, no, cylinder 0 does not have to be formatted unless you mark cylinder 0 as PAGE or SPOOL.) 3. Update your directory (e.g. $ALLOC$) cylinder 0 of that volume is in use and/or update your directory management product configuration files. 4. Update SYSTEM CONFIG 5. DETACH 1472 MAINT 6. ATTACH 1472 TO SYSTEM 7. Allocate minidisks on it. 8. The guest that owns the minidisk can format it. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
