I must be doing something wrong but I sure don't see it. Has anyone seen this behavior? Thanks Tom
Devices dedicated in z/VM directory. DEDICATE B600 B600 DEDICATE B640 B640 DEDICATE B641 B641 DEDICATE B642 B642 DEDICATE B643 B643 >From a class B user CP Q PAV Device B600 is a base HyperParallel Access Volume device in Pool 0 Device B640 is an alias HyperParallel Access Volume device in Pool 0 Device B641 is an alias HyperParallel Access Volume device in Pool 0 Device B642 is an alias HyperParallel Access Volume device in Pool 0 Device B643 is an alias HyperParallel Access Volume device in Pool 0 >From the z/LINUX virtual machine CP Q V PAV HYPERPAV BASE B600 ON B600 0ZB600 POOL 0 HYPERPAV ALIAS B640 ON B640 POOL 0 HYPERPAV ALIAS B641 ON B641 POOL 0 HYPERPAV ALIAS B642 ON B642 POOL 0 HYPERPAV ALIAS B643 ON B643 POOL 0 Set them online to LINUX chccwdev -e b600,b640-b643 Setting device 0.0.b600 online dasd-eckd 0.0.b600: New DASD 3390/0E (CU 3990/01) with 262668 cylinders, 15 heads, 224 sectors dasd-eckd 0.0.b600: DASD with 4 KB/block, 189120960 KB total size, 48 KB/track, linux disk layout dasdb:(nonl) dasdb1 Done Setting device 0.0.b640 online dasd-eckd 0.0.b640: New DASD 3390/0A (CU 3990/01) with 0 cylinders, 0 heads, 0 sectors Done Setting device 0.0.b641 online dasd-eckd 0.0.b641: New DASD 3390/0A (CU 3990/01) with 0 cylinders, 0 heads, 0 sectors Done Setting device 0.0.b642 online dasd-eckd 0.0.b642: New DASD 3390/0A (CU 3990/01) with 0 cylinders, 0 heads, 0 sectors Done Setting device 0.0.b643 online dasd-eckd 0.0.b643: New DASD 3390/0A (CU 3990/01) with 0 cylinders, 0 heads, 0 sectors Done [root@tom128 ~]# As seen by LINUX OS. lsdasd Bus-ID Status Name Device Type BlkSz Size Blocks ============================================================================== 0.0.b640 active ??? : ECKD 0 0.0.b641 active ??? : ECKD 0 0.0.b642 active ??? : ECKD 0 0.0.b643 active ??? : ECKD 0 0.0.0100 active dasda 94:0 ECKD 4096 7042MB 1802880 0.0.b600 n/f dasdb 94:4 ECKD [root@tom128 ~]# WHY DOESN'T LINUX SEE THE ALIAS VOLUMES? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
