OK, I have FBA DASD working with the DIAG driver now. The only thing that doesn't yet work is LDL disks on CKD DASD using the DIAG driver that have been formatted with an old version of dasdfmt (which does not include formatted_blocks in the label). That's the only remaining case where the partition size calculation depends on device geometry, which is bogus when using the DIAG driver. Nevertheless, parted does know the correct size of the disk in sectors when using the DIAG driver. It uses that information to calculate free space, which it annoyingly displays if I don't create the metadata partitions properly. So it may be possible to eliminate that last remaining dependency on device geometry. I'll give it a shot.
(Of course, I am speaking in the context of LDL and CMS formatted disks. CDL formatted disks still have a dependency on device geometry, and always will. But CDL formatted disks can only be created on CKD DASD and they cannot use the DIAG driver; so obtaining the device geometry is no problem.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
