I don't waste my time doing that any more, and I have no problems with minidisks. The system throws out a frightening message until you can run a dasdfmt against them, but it doesn't cause any difficulties.
In Dave's case, I would think that all the volumes have already been initialized with ICKDSF. If not, that certainly should be done, but it's not quite the same process as formatting a volume. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SLES8 dasdfmt problem -snip- In each of the disks I've used for Linux, I've defined a minidisk and then formatted them via CMS first. Only reason why I did that was to clear any "old" Linux stuff off the disks first. So, perhaps, any formatting is the key, or that there is a volume label on the drive prior to letting Linux have it. In the origional post, the person didn't have VM, so the same thing might be done with ICKDSF with a full init. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
