On 06.04.2011, at 16:40, Carsten Otte wrote: > On 06.04.2011 15:06, Alexander Graf wrote: >> Could you please tell me some way to format a dasd device so that it has a blocks/track value different from 12? Also, do people actually do this? > That's easy: use a different blocksize than 4096 bytes with dasdfmt. Ah, I see. Do people do that? Also, we could just pass the geometry to the force functions as well. That way we could convert things on the fly and keep everything dynamic. I assume the best approach here would be to specify the blocksize rather than blocks/track value in the command line, as that's what users remember (at least me). What's the correlation between blocks/track and blocksize? Is it just blocks/track * 341? Or is it 1 << blocks/track? Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
