Hi all...
Adding new dasd (dasdam) to a running SLES8 system, when it comes to running the dasdfmt, we get an error of: 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)
The command is: dasdfmt -b 4096 -l ABCDEF -f /dev/dasdam
The only similar failures I've found are all related to specifying the partition number as part of the device name.
And yes, they have dasda->dasdz->dasdaa->dasdal in production. Now adding 5 more volumes (dasdam->dasdaq). They did the mknode's and we can see the /dev/dasda* entries in the /dev directory. They did the add device into /proc/dasd/devices, and they can see them there with the minidisk addresses matching the expected dasda* names.
Any thoughts?
Thanks, Lee
Lee Stewart, Senior SE Sirius Enterprise Systems Group (719) 566-0188 , Fax (309) 410-5363 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.siriuscom.com
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