Hi Marcy Based on our experience, we have no problem formatting just the first five cyl (0-5) before we attached them as linux dasd device mdisks. In turn, they will format them using their own linux utilities. rgrds
--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Marcy Cortes <[email protected]> wrote: From: Marcy Cortes <[email protected]> Subject: ICKDSF format of new DASD To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 20 July, 2010, 9:36 AM What is the current recommendation for new DASD purchases and ICKDSF CPVOL FORMAT for disk to be used for Linux. We've been formatting the whole thing. Once upon a time there was a DASD driver bug that this helped avoid, but I'm sure that has been fixed before. Marcy
