On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:35, Eric Sammons wrote: > I am searching for ways to ensure maximum up time of my "z/Linux" > environment. As such, I am wondering, when adding dasd to the environment > is there a way to go from editing the zipl.conf file to dasdfmt without > rebooting. Currently, I add my device to zipl.conf and then execute zipl > followed by a reboot. I would like to eliminate the reboot.
Sure. echo "add device range=<whatever>" > /proc/dasd/devices (Assuming it's a 2.4 kernel) You'll still want to put it in zipl.conf, and rerun zipl, so that when you *do* reboot it's picked up, though. Adam
