On Friday, 03/14/2008 at 11:38 EDT, Steve Mitchell 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Perhaps I've mis-interpretted the term 'Full Volume Minidisk'.
> I format cylinder 0 0, and then give the 'Volume Label'.
> 
> I've understood that to mean I'm  making cyl 1 to end available for 
linux
> and using cyl 0 for vm.  Is that not correct?

A "full-pack minidisk" covers cylinders 0-END.  Anything else is just a 
minidisk.  We differentiate because there are special rules that apply to 
full-pack minidisks.  In particular, the use of DEVNO in the directory and 
SYSTEM CONFIG and their support of real Reserve/Release.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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