David, I did not format the volume with CPFMT. The volume was previously initialized under MVS using ICKDSF...and it had and indexed vtoc on it.
I just made the volume available to zVM 4.3 using the SYSTEM CONFIG and MDISK statement, then I let the SLES8 install format(CDL) and partition the disk. The volume is MDISK to a zVM 4.3 LPAR. The volume is also accessible to my OS/390 LPARs, and I was hoping to backup the volumes using FDRABR. I was able to successfully do this with a volume that was DEDICATED to a LINUX GUEST.. but not this MDISK situation. I'm a VM newbie...so I guess I know I'm doing something wrong here... WHAT STEPS DID I MISS or DO WRONG? On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:26:28AM -0700, Dave Myers wrote: > I created a minidisk for LINUX like this: > MDISK 151 3390 0001 3338 LXAD41 MR > Then I installed SLES8 on to that mdisk > and chose CDL format. > (side note: there are MVS VTOC INDEXES on these volumes also) > On my OS/390 2.9 system...I can not successfully > display the VTOC for this volume ??? Did you format the volume with DSF CPFMT? OS/390 is looking for the VTOC in physical cyl 0, which should have been put there by the DSF CPFMT or INIT. OS/390 won't see the label and vtoc on cyl 1 unless it is running under the same VM and the disk is linked to the OS/390 userid. -- db
