>>My understanding is that the old, old, old, _real_ 3380 devices don't >>support ECKD, which is necessary for support in Linux/390. If those are >>indeed that type of device, then I believe you are out of luck. > >If the 3380's are behind a 3990 Control Unit I suppose one could go >and remove all coded dependencies on 3390 geometry, but if this is >indeed a non-ECKD control unit then it would be painful.
Another possibility, if it was a 3380 attached to a 3990 controller - the original mail from Maciek implies that he used ICKDSF to format the disk, which doesn't build a Linux compatible layout either. He should use dasdfmt instead. Ingo
