On Wednesday, 01/23/2008 at 11:14 EST, Coffin Michael C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a bit late in responding to this, but 2D5 (520PG1) has PAGE allocated on > cylinder 0. You need to change this extent to start on cylinder 1, not 0 (0 > contains the VTOC and has to be allocated as PERM). Update your SYSTEM CONFIG > (MAINT CF1) and run ICKDSF on the pack to make sure 0 is allocated as PERM (you > probably ought to reformat cylinder 0 while you are in there, who knows what CP > might have been written on cylinder 0 that corrupted the VTOC).
Technically, it is ok to mark cyl 0 as PAGE. The paging subsystem knows to avoid the tracks that have "important stuff" on them. Administratively, I wouldn't. It's just too confusing. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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