>> I then execute the following dasdfmt command:
>>
>> dasdfmt -y -b 4096 -n 0206
>> dasdfmt: Unable to open device /dev/dasd/0206/device: No such file or
>> directory
>....
>> 0206(ECKD) at ( 94: 28) is dasdh : active at blocksize: 4096, 594000
>> blocks, 2320 MB
>>
>> Anyidea what is happening here? I have noticed that the dasdfmt
>> command isn't cooperating in SLES8. Where if I execute format at the
>> VM layer all is well.
>Yeah, I've seen this before too.
>Let me guess: this is real, honest-to-goodness virgin disk, that nothing
has ever touched before, right?
>
>For some reason, Linux won't touch it unless it finds some magic goodie on
it that CMS formatting it gives it. I >don't know if low-level CP
formatting, or just Label formatting, would do the trick as well. I'd say
it's a bug >in the DASD driver or the dasdfmt utility, but I don't really
know; the workaround, as you've found, is to touch >all your disks with CMS
first.
I've seen that before too - I bet it works if you use the dasdfmt command
like this:
dasdfmt -b 4096 -v -p -f /dev/dasdh
Marcy Cortes
Wells Fargo Services Co
