Peter, 
That makes a lot of sense...I'll give it a try.
Thanks for taking the time to do these tests. 
If you ever get to Maine, let me know, I'll repay the favor 
Cheers, 
Pat


Patrick Carroll  |  Enterprise Architect
L.L.Bean, Inc.(r) |  Double L St. |  Freeport ME 04033
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Peter 1 Oberparleiter
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 12:38 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Missing DIAG discipline; was RE:

Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 26.11.2007
16:23:33:
> Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 26.11.2007
> > Has DIAG access to a DASD worked before on your system (i.e. not at 
> > reboot but by manual activation)?
> Yes...methinks that this started after a mkinitrd/zipl

Ok, did some tests and ran into the same issue.. on RHEL5. Apparently
there are two problems:

1) mkinitrd does not include support for dasd_diag_mod - I'm assuming
you specified the module using mkinitrd's --with= switch
2) a kernel bug prevents devices that failed to be activated during dasd
module load to be activated later on

Because of 1) and the fact that the --with switch adds modules too late
in the initialization sequence, you seem to be running into 2). As a
workaround, use the following method:

        mkinitrd initrd-<version> <version> --preload=dasd_mod
--preload=dasd_diag_mod


Regards,
  Peter

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Peter Oberparleiter
Linux on System z Development
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

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