fdasd -a creates a z/OS compatible disk layout on your DASD and writes a VTOC containing your partition information. And in addition the first few blocks on your DASD have a variable block size now, even if the DASD driver hides this from you. For that reason you can not use the /dev/dasd/0306/disc or the /dev/dasd/0306/device device nodes with the DASD cdl format.
Create your physical LVM volume on the first partition instead: pvcreate /dev/dasd/0306/part1 In case you really want to use the entire disc and not only a partition, use the ldl format. See fdasd man page how to use it. regards, Volker Linux on zSeries Development Tel.: +49-(0)7031-16-2019 IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH > fdasd -a /dev/dasd/0308/disc > auto-creating one partition for the whole disk... > writing volume label... > writing VTOC... > rereading partition table... > zvmlinx5:/# pvcreate /dev/dasd/0306/disc > pvcreate -- device "/dev/dasd/0306/disc" has a partition table ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
