>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at  5:15 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob van der Heij
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
-snip-
> Since we're not speaking on Linux-390, I dare to say this....  ;-)  A

Careful.  The list has eyes everywhere, and we're watching you.  :)

> lot of this weird stuff is due to ignorance and paranoidism among the
> Linux developers. The connection between DIAG250 and CMS RESERVE is
> entirely artificial and self-imposed restriction from the Linux device
> driver. 

That limitation was lifted some time ago.  You can use DIAG 250 I/O to any ECKD 
device these days.  Not sure when that happened, but clearly prior to SLES10 
being released, since that was when you could specify DIAG mode for any 
arbitrary DASD volume.


Mark Post

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