On Wednesday, 11/05/2008 at 04:04 EST, Bob Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well you can drain (CP DRAIN DASD rdev PAGE) it, but it might never come > completely clean. And since it is running at 71%, I'd wonder about the ability > of the other pack(s) to take up its load. You might want to consider adding > some more page packs to the system if you can. > > Why is there a VTOC on a paging volume?
There's always a VTOC - it tell other systems that the disk has no available extents for allocation. I'm trying to figure out how the VTOC got somewhere other than cyl 0! If it's laying in the middle of the pack somewhere (result of mdisk) and that record isn't formatted as a 4K record (labels are 80 bytes), there's going to be trouble if CP chooses that record to page to! Though thinking about it some more, I think CP will simply mark that record as "in error" and skip it. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
