Thanks Berry.  That (logoff/logon) did the trick.

Mvh./Best Regards
Roger Evans, Autodata Norge A/S
http://www.autodata.no +47 93 25 92 36





On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 22:58 +0200, Berry van Sleeuwen wrote:

> Did you dynamically add the device? We have seen a similar error when
> new DASD, 3390-9 in our case, is linked in SLES11 SP1. Only after a
> reboot (logoff/logon) of the guest we were able to format the DASD.
>
> Regards, Berry.
>
> Op 24-04-12 15:58, Roger Evans schreef:
> > Is there anyway to format dasd devices that aren't minidisks (because
> > they're too large)?
> >
> > I am trying to use disks that looks like this:
> >
> > faktark:~ # lsdasd
> > Bus-ID     Status      Name      Device  Type  BlkSz  Size      Blocks
> > ==============================================================================
> > ...
> >
> > 0.0.0500   active      dasdi     94:32   ECKD  4096   169036MB  43273440
> > 0.0.0501   active      dasdj     94:36   ECKD  4096   169036MB  43273440
> > 0.0.0502   active      dasdk     94:40   ECKD  4096   169036MB  43273440
> >
> >
> > dasdfmt fails with:
> >     dasdfmt: Writing the bootstrap IPL2 failed, only wrote -1 bytes.
> >
> > and fdasd then can't read the volume.
> >
> > I've tried dparted but can't seem to find a way to write a volume lable.
> >
> >
> > Mvh./Best Regards
> > Roger Evans, Autodata Norge A/S
> > http://www.autodata.no +47 93 25 92 36
> >
> >
> >
> >
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