>Don't use a complete disk device for swapping. We have had very similar trouble >with fdasd and dasd access, especially on the first 1024 bytes of a dasd >device. >So use fdasd to create a partition, change the type to Linux Swap and then >use /dev/dasda1 instead. That should prevent access to the first 1024 bytes >of the dasd device for swapping and therefore should work as expected. >Read ya, Phil Thanks, Phil, I was not aware of the fdasd command, nor that you could partition 390 dasd. I did fdasd on /dev/dasda and set it to type swap. Then did a mkswap and swapon /dev/dasda1, works great. Mark Pace
