I am running RedHat 3.1 on VM 4.4. in and LPAR (of course) on an IFL. I
want to add a disk. A minidisk addr 204 of 5008 cylinders was added. I ran
fdasd and here is the display
[EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# fdasd -p /dev/dasde
reading volume label: VOL1
reading vtoc : ok
Disk /dev/dasde:
5008 cylinders,
15 tracks per cylinder,
12 blocks per track
4096 bytes per block
volume label: VOL1, volume identifier: TEMP
maximum partition number: 3
------------------------------- tracks -------------------------------
Device start end length Id System
/dev/dasde1 2 75119 75118 1 Linux native
exiting...
When I try to run dasdfmt I get this error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# dasdfmt -v -b 4096 -l TEMP -f /dev/dasde1
Retrieving disk geometry...
Drive Geometry: 5008 Cylinders * 15 Heads = 75120 Tracks
I am going to format the device /dev/dasde1 in the following way:
Device number of device : 0x204
Labelling device : yes
Disk label : VOL1
Disk identifier : TEMP
Extent start (trk no) : 0
Extent end (trk no) : 75119
Compatible Disk Layout : yes
Blocksize : 4096
--->> ATTENTION! <<---
All data of that device will be lost.
Type "yes" to continue, no will leave the disk untouched: yes
Formatting the device. This may take a while (get yourself a coffee).
Detaching the device...
Invalidate first track...
dasdfmt: (invalidate first track) IOCTL BIODASDFMT failed. (Invalid
argument)
After this the disk is now "broken". When I try to display the partition
with fdisk again, here is what I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dasd]# fdasd -p /dev/dasde
fdasd error: open error
Could not open device '/dev/dasde' in read-only mode!
Any hints about what I did wrong? All help is appreciated!
_/) Tom Shilson
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