On Jan 11, 2005, at 7:50 AM, Alan Altmark wrote:
On behalf of Horst Sinram, IBM Boeblingen:
I think there is a single misunderstanding. FBA devices always
contain a
single partition. They can NEITHER be formatted NOR partitioned.
Formatting and partitioning is currently only supported for ECKD
devices.
This means that one has just to make a file-system on the partition and
the device is ready for use (dasdfmt, fdasd, fdisk,.... don't work on
FBA
devices).
You can also have a look into the Device Drivers book for more info on
how
to get a FBA device working.
Well, there's a problem here.
If your FBA device is CMS FORMATted and RESERVEd (so that it becomes a
DIAG device--but you can still access it with the FBA drivers!) then it
suddenly grows a /dev/dasdX1 partition which is what you use.
At least, that's what happens with VDISK. Dunno about actual FBA or
SCSI-presented-as-FBA.
Adam
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