I have created a Raid0 device with 8 mdisk. When I try to format it I get the 
following error.
[root@vmlinux2 etc]# dasdfmt -b 4096 -f /dev/md0
dasdfmt: the ioctl call to get the API version returned with the following error 
message:
Invalid argument

DMESG The following is what I get from my log    

raid0 : md_size is 8063552 blocks.
raid0 : conf->smallest->size is 8063552 blocks.
raid0 : nb_zone is 1.
raid0 : Allocating 8 bytes for hash.
md: updating md0 RAID superblock on device
md: dasdk [events: 00000001](write) dasdk's sb offset: 1151936
md: dasdj [events: 00000001](write) dasdj's sb offset: 1151936
md: dasdi [events: 00000001](write) dasdi's sb offset: 1151936
md: dasdh [events: 00000001](write) dasdh's sb offset: 1151936
md: dasdf [events: 00000001](write) dasdf's sb offset: 1151936
md: dasde [events: 00000001](write) dasde's sb offset: 1151936
md: dasdd [events: 00000001](write) dasdd's sb offset: 1151936
md: dasdfmt(pid 513) used obsolete MD ioctl, upgrade your software to use new ic
tls.

Moloko Monyepao
OS390/L390 System Programmer
arivia.kom
Tel : +27 11 800 3372

Reply via email to