1. rebuilt the golden image, preparing the disk with CMS FORMAT & RESERVE on
EDEV FBA mini-disks
2. prepared the clone system disk with CMS FORMAT & RESERVE on EDEV FBA
mini-disks
3. Altered the clonerw.sh script so that it recognized the disk as FBA
instead of CKD to get the device names and deleted the format section of the
script.
4. ran the clonerw.sh script and through the ssh session, it gave no error
messages, however on the VM guest console we received many iterations of the
following messages for each device during the dd copy command executions:
Buffer I/O error on device dasdc, logical block 4547
lost page write due to I/O error on dasdc
end_request: I/O error, dev dasdc, sector 36400
Mar  3 08:28:14 S11CLONE kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev dasdc, sector
77016
5. tried booting the clone but expected failure due to I/O errors and as
expected the boot failed
6. Under CMS, used DDR to copy each of the EDEV FBA disks from the golden
image to the clone
7. Clone server booted without issue.  Working on some parts of
boot.findself script to set the ifcfg-eth0 ip address that don't appear to
be working, but the server came up without an error.

So, we have a method to make the clone, but the clonerw.sh script doesn't
seem to work with this disk without further modifications that we can't
figure out at this point.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote:

> >>> On 3/2/2011 at 03:47 PM, Richard Troth <[email protected]> wrote:
> > There is a lot of confusion about 'dasdfmt' versus 'mkfs'.  If you
> > already know the difference, please excuse this note.
>
> Rick,
>
> Do me a favor and stick this out on the wiki (after editing it a bit for
> style).  I think this would be useful for others that might trip across it
> and don't know about this listserve.
>
>
> Mark Post
>
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