Is there more information in the kernel ring buffer? (dmesg will show you that.)
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Kaba Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Formatting and Partitioning on SLES 8 Getting the following error when trying to format one of my disks: SuSE Instsys zlinux:/root # dasdfmt -f /dev/dasda1 -b 4096 -d cdl Drive Geometry: 400 Cylinders * 15 Heads = 6000 Tracks I am going to format the device /dev/dasda1 in the following way: Device number of device : 0x150 Labelling device : yes Disk label : VOL1 Disk identifier : 0X0150 Extent start (trk no) : 0 Extent end (trk no) : 5999 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). dasdfmt: (invalidate first track) IOCTL BIODASDFMT failed. (Invalid argument) SuSE Instsys zlinux:/root # Any suggestions? Thanks, John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
