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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
