I've never seen "accepted" as a state. IBM guys: Any ideas?
A dasd device is in state "accepted" after the disable ioctl. This is done by dasdfmt, it first disables the device, then formats each track and reenables it after writing the default partition table.
Invalidate first track... dasdfmt: (invalidate first track) IOCTL BIODASDFMT failed. (Invalid argument)
Something went wrong with invalidation of the first track. The ioctl returned -EINVAL as it seems, and dasdfmt didn't reenable the device. So the device is "stuck" in state accepted. Strange, which kernel version and which s390-tools version are you using ?
It's a SLES 8 image; 2-4-19-3suse-SMP, according to "uname -a". s390-tools is at 1.1.3, as far as I can tell.
To answer Mike MacIsaac's question: I've checked several times; it's R/W, not R/O. Also, I was able to CMS format it earlier this week, so I'm fairly confident the underlying hardware isn't preventing writes.
blue skies, Martin
Nick
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