Wanted to update this thread.
We went production on the z800, thus access to the RVA disk was made
available to the Linux LPARs.
We were successful in formatting and using the 3390s on the RVA, so this
problem (most likely) was related
to using the older RAMAC devices and controllers.
Unfortunately I don't have time to dig further on why the RAMAC does not
work......hafta keep moving ;o)
FYI
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Denver Solutions Group
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I believe that we have the Ramac Dasd Subsystem model 23 with the B23
drawers.
I still rather refuse to believe that it is a problem with the
controllers. If you can vary them online, CP can use them so I don't
see why Linux would have a problem.
Friday, I will take a look at my linux(s) and see if I can add dasd. I
did it with Linux 7 so I have a couple notes on how I did it.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
Dave Myers wrote:
>Well our ramacs are not working.
>There is no dasd or 3990 info in /proc/subchannels after the dasd is
>loaded from yast.
>/proc/dasd/devices shows the 3380 with an "unknown status".
>No insmods, rmmods modprobes etc. change that symptom.
>mknod comes back with a message indicating that the 94:0 is already
>registered..but the linux console messages say otherwise!!
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>I am wondering if 3990-13 might be the problem???
>Do you use mod 13 controllers on your ramac??
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>Dave Myers
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>Don't worry about the Ramacs. I have Suse 8 loaded on both 3380 and
>3390 Ramac Dasd Subsystems, as well as MP3000 internal dasd.
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>I haven't had to add disk. Mine were added durning installation.
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>I assume that you went to the Suse website. There is a paper on adding
>S390 dasd to a running Linux system. That worked for me when I added
>dasd to Linux 7.
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>Tom Duerbusch
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