Problems formatting Minidisks (vm370sixpack-1_1)

[wolfmvs19]

Hello,
i'm trying to add a disk to my vm-System (running Hercules under winxp).

I do the following steps:

In Windows:

dasdinit disks/vm3330-1 3330 vmuser 30

Start Hercules and initialize vm/370 and attach the disk:

attach 133 3300 disks/vm3330-1

and it responds:

attach 133 3330 disks/vm3330-1
HHCDA020I disks/vm3330-1 cyls=30 heads=19 tracks=570 trklen=13312

Now I log on in vm/370 with

logon maint cpcms # ipl cms

and do the following steps:

Ready; T=0.03/0.15 17:20:04
vary online 133
133 VARIED ONLINE
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 17:20:11
att 133 maint
DASD 133 ATTACH TO MAINT    133
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 17:20:16
format 133 P
DMSFOR603R FORMAT WILL ERASE ALL FILES ON DISK 'P(133)'. DO YOU WISH TO
CONTINUE
? (YES|NO):
YES
DMSFOR605R ENTER DISK LABEL:
vmuser

and now the systems hungs...i have to cancel hercules !
What is wrong in this sequence of commands ?
Thank you.

[Alexey Bozrikov]

Dear wolfmvs19,

Sunday, 23 August 2009, you wrote:



I think you should not be formatting whole pack with CMS FORMAT command, as CMS has limitations with regard to minidisk size. You may destroy disk label, too. What you have to do is allocate a minidisk for your user account on VMUSER disk pack through editing USER DIRECT and DIRECT command, and then either LINK to it or logon/logoff, then format. If you need to format the whole pack, you have to use either IBCDASDI or ICKDSF stand-alone program .

Alexey





 
Hello,
i'm trying to add a disk to my vm-System (running Hercules under winxp).

I do the following steps:

In Windows:

dasdinit disks/vm3330-1 3330 vmuser 30

Start Hercules and initialize vm/370 and attach the disk:

attach 133 3300 disks/vm3330-1

and it responds:

attach 133 3330 disks/vm3330-1
HHCDA020I disks/vm3330-1 cyls=30 heads=19 tracks=570 trklen=13312

Now I log on in vm/370 with

logon maint cpcms # ipl cms

and do the following steps:

Ready; T=0.03/0.15 17:20:04
vary online 133
133 VARIED ONLINE
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 17:20:11
att 133 maint
DASD 133 ATTACH TO MAINT    133
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 17:20:16
format 133 P
DMSFOR603R FORMAT WILL ERASE ALL FILES ON DISK 'P(133)'. DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE
? (YES|NO):
YES
DMSFOR605R ENTER DISK LABEL:
vmuser

and now the systems hungs...i have to cancel hercules !
What is wrong in this sequence of commands ?
Thank you.



** They're only trying to make me LOOK paranoid.

[John Boncek-2]

Use the FORMAT/ALLOCATE program to prepare the pack for system use.  

1.  Log on as MAINT.

2.  Attach the disk to MAINT at an appropriate address:

 ATTACH nnn * 499

3.  Punch the IPL FMT deck from the CMS system disk.  Be sure to use
the NOH (noheader) option:

SPOOL PUN *
PUN IPL FMT * (NOH

4.  IPL MAINT's reader to start the program.  

IPL C

I forget which reference manual describes the FORMAT/ALLOCATE commands---SYSPROG reference?


John