>>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at  9:43 AM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael
MacIsaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
-snip-
> But, if a virgin volume is not CPFMTXA'd and just dasdfmt'd (or
> FLASHCOPY'd or DDR'd from another volume), there is no error.  Also the
> volume (minidisk) will seem to be OK, and Linux can be installed, etc.
> But, Strange Things happen to these volumes - like Linux will not always
> boot cleanly, etc.
> 
> Has anyone seen this behavior? If so does anyone know why this happens?
> Also could it be argued there is a bug somewhere?  Thanks.

If these are used as minidisks, then problems could result from real cylinder 0 
not being formatted.


Mark Post

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