On 9 November 2012 00:41, Marcy Cortes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did NOREADCHECK and the time was identical. > This is the ICKDSF format you were thinking of, right? > CPVOL FMT MODE(ESA) UNIT(E886) VOLID(E886VM) NOVFY RANGE(0,10016) NOREADCHECK Yep. Apparently it's that cheap they did not bother to change the default option. I just purged the traces and forgot to check whether they were maybe reading with zero-length and suppress the transfer over the channel. >> For the time being, you could format it with ICKDSF and then DDR cylinder 1 >> from a Linux pack to fool dasdfmt... > > Really? That would work? Even on different sized minidisks? Ideally from the same size ;-) I though folks did mostly pseudo full-pack anyway. When you borrow the first 2 tracks from a larger disk, Linux will spit out a series of error messages when the head hits the wall, but then makes up his mind and "fdasd -a" does just fine. I have not tried using the tracks from a smaller disk. You don't really have to "own" those disks, but just keep a copy of the tracks in a CMS file PIPE trackread 300 0 0 2 | > linuxdsk tracks a And then re-use that same set whenever you need it PIPE < linuxdsk tracks | trackwrite 500 EMPTY 0 1 We did those things back then after flashing an empty disk on top of it (after the 'range' was removed from dasdfmt). Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
