Alan,
> Sounds like your minidisk is 1-END instead of 0-END and so doesn't see a
> volser on the minidisk.
In my test case, I defined it 0 END.
-Mike
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On Monday, 11/03/2014 at 02:16 EST, "Shedlock, George"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > When we create the guest we format and label the volumes using ICKDSF.
> >
> > According to the Cookbook one of the first steps in making the disk
> available
> > to zLinux is to run a dasdfmt command against the disk.
> >
> > According to ?Device Drivers, Features, and Commands on Red Hat
> Enterprise
> > Linux 7?, dasdfmt has an option ?k
>
> There's no need to format a volume twice. If you're going to format a
> volume dasdfmt, there's no need to use ICKDSF.
>
> > -k or --keep_volser
> > keeps the volume serial number when writing the volume label (see
> VOLSER).
> > Keeping the volume serial number is useful, for example, if the volume
> serial
> > number was written with a z/VM tool and should not be overwritten.
> >
> > However, whenever we try to run dasdfmt with that option we get the
> following
> > error
> >
> > [root@dcvml29 ~]# dasdfmt -b 4096 -y -v -k -f /dev/dasdf
> > dasdfmt: VOLSER not found on device /dev/dasdf
>
> Sounds like your minidisk is 1-END instead of 0-END and so doesn't see a
> volser on the minidisk.
>
> Alan Altmark
>
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> Lab Services System z Delivery Practice
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