Now I feel stupid .. I was looking at the type FBA-512 and was off thinking
FBA(F=format??) I am going to blame it on the new dog, he kept me up all
night with his wimpering..

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote:

> >>> On 3/12/2013 at 02:45 PM, Tom Huegel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Excuse my ignorance, but what is "FBAF"?
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Pavelka, Tomas <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >
> >> We have been trying to format all minidisks from Linux only and this
> >> turned out to be problematic. I am looking for a solution that would
> let us
> >> stay in Linux without having to involve CMS format for every new
> minidisk.
> >> Let me first describe the problem:
> >> When there is a record on dasd that has incorrect cylinder in the count
> >> area, this leads to "record not found" errors when the dasd is brought
> >> online. Since the dasd needs to be online before the problem is fixed
> (by
> >> formatting) the only way around that I can see is to preformat in CMS.
> >> If new minidisks are regularly formatted and destroyed, it is possible
> to
> >> run into situation where part of the disk has the correct format and
> part
> >> has the cylinder number in the count area wrong.
> >>
> >> Here is a way to reproduce:
> >>
> >>
> >> 1) Create a minidisk and format it with CDL, e.g.
> >>
> >> MDISK FBAF 3390 4819 1000 VMBL2H WR
>
> It's the MDISK device address.
>
>
> Mark Post
>
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