Hi
I am having a little problem maybe you can see what I am doing wrong! I defined the mdisk starting at 38 ending at 159 for my parmfile: q v 195 DASD 0195 3390 53DRES R/W 159 CYL ON DASD 514B SUBCHANNEL = 000E When I trying accessing it I get this: acc 195 x DMSACP112S X(195) device error Any idea what I am doing wrong? ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 4:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WAIT STATE Here's how I would find out.. Attach the res pack from the failing system on your good system.. In my example -- it's 530RES: - Attach the pack to your good system (let's say it's address 5C00): ATTACH 5C00 SYSTEM - Do DEF MDISK (need OPTION DEVMAINT in your directory entry) to the whole pack: def mdisk 100 0 end 530res DASD 0100 DEFINED Ready; T=0.01/0.01 14:48:32 - Issue CPFMTXA (no - we aren't going to format - just see the allocation table and then get out of there): cpfmtxa 100 ENTER FORMAT, ALLOCATE, LABEL, OR QUIT: allocate ENTER THE VOLUME LABEL FOR DISK 0100: 530res HCPCCF6209I INVOKING ICKDSF. ICK030E DEFINE INPUT DEVICE: FN FT FM, "CONSOLE", OR "READER" CONSOLE ICK031E DEFINE OUTPUT DEVICE: FN FT FM, "CONSOLE", OR "PRINTER" CONSOLE ICKDSF - CMS/XA/ESA DEVICE SUPPORT FACILITIES 17.0 TIME: 14:51:3 09/14/08 PAGE 1 ENTER INPUT COMMAND: CPVOL LIST UNIT(0100) VFY(530RES) ICK00700I DEVICE INFORMATION FOR 0100 IS CURRENTLY AS FOLLOWS: PHYSICAL DEVICE = 3390 STORAGE CONTROLLER = 3990 STORAGE CONTROL DESCRIPTOR = E9 DEVICE DESCRIPTOR = 0C ADDITIONAL DEVICE INFORMATION = 48001B35 TRKS/CYL = 15, # PRIMARY CYLS = 10017 ICK04000I DEVICE IS IN SIMPLEX STATE ICK00703I DEVICE IS OPERATED AS A MINIDISK ICK00091I 0100 NED=002105.000.IBM.13.000000027884 ICK091I 0100 NED=002105.000.IBM.13.000000027884 ICK03090I VOLUME SERIAL = 530RES ICK03024I DEVICE IS CURRENTLY FORMATTED WITHOUT FILLER RECORDS ICK03000I CPVOL REPORT FOR 0100 FOLLOWS: ICK03021I 0100 IS FORMATTED FOR VM/ESA MODE CYLINDER ALLOCATION CURRENTLY IS AS FOLLOWS: TYPE START END TOTAL ---- ----- --- ----- PERM 0 0 1 DRCT 1 20 20 PERM 21 38 18 PARM 39 158 120 PARM 159 278 120 PARM 279 398 120 PERM 399 10016 9618 ICK00001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0 14:51:57 09/14/08 ENTER INPUT COMMAND: END ICK00002I ICKDSF PROCESSING COMPLETE. MAXIMUM CONDITION CODE WAS 0 ENTER ALLOCATION DATA TYPE CYLINDERS ................. end Ready; T=0.01/0.01 14:52:20 det 100 DASD 0100 DETACHED Ready; T=0.01/0.01 14:52:38 Note the PARM disks above -- they show the extents the parm disks are on. Now you can use DEF MDISK using those extents - access the disk(s) - make your changes - and breathe a sigh of relief :-) Scott Rohling On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Quay, Jonathan (IHG) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The default locations of those minidisks are written down somewhere in an IBM provided document. At least they used to be. Program Directory maybe? Service and Installation guide? ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) Sent: Sun 9/14/2008 4:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WAIT STATE I hear you! Live and learn! And I have learned! Thanks -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 4:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WAIT STATE On Sunday, 09/14/2008 at 03:42 EDT, "Quay, Jonathan (IHG)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The other option is to just attach the pack to another vm system, use DEFINE > MDISK to point to MAINT's CF1, access it and edit it from the other system. This illustrates a few things: 1. Always use CPSYNTAX after you change SYSTEM CONFIG. 2. Always keep a backup copy on CF2. 3. Write down on a real and electronic piece of paper the disk locations of MAINT 190, the disk with USER DIRECT on it, and MAINT CF1. It makes DEFINE MDISK and system repair soooo much easier. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
