Thanks Adam, we reviewed this and IOCDS was not correct. regards.................Jim
------ Original Message ------ Received: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:44:20 AM EST From: Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Tape Deive Locks Linux? On Apr 26, 2005, at 8:51 AM, Jim Knox wrote: > We are experimenting with SLES9 on z890 (native LPAR) and I have > noticed that > it locks up from time to time. I don't know if it is pertinent, but > the last > 2 times this occurred was when we took a tape drive offline on the > z/OS LPAR. > The IOCDS should allow our Linux LPAR to 'see' only eight 3390, > nothing else. > > > But even so, YaST---> Hardware--->DASD lists all the DASD devices > across the > whole shop. > I would suspect your IOCDS. Since clearly that LPAR *can* see all the other devices attached. Taking the tape offline probably does cause an event that forces a refresh of Linux's device information, although that really shouldn't lock things up. But if you can see a whole bunch of devices, and Linux thinks it has access to them, but it doesn't, that could plausibly cause some weirdness. Check that IOCDS carefully--I don't think it's really hiding the rest of the devices from the Linux LPAR. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
