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- Lines: 18
- Date:
Sun Oct 15 21:39:07 2000
- Orig file:
v2.2.17/Documentation/s390/DASD
- Orig date:
Fri Apr 21 12:45:49 2000
diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude v2.2.17/Documentation/s390/DASD linux/Documentation/s390/DASD
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
We currently implement one partition per volume, which is the whole
volume, skipping the first blocks up to the volume label. These are
reserved for IPL records and IBM's volume label to assure
-accessability of the DASD from other OSs. In a later stage we will
+accessibility of the DASD from other OSs. In a later stage we will
provide support of partitions, maybe VTOC oriented or using a kind of
partition table in the label record.
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
-Low-level format (?CKD only)
For using an ECKD-DASD as a Linux harddisk you have to low-level
-format the tracks by issueing the BLKDASDFORMAT-ioctl on that
+format the tracks by issuing the BLKDASDFORMAT-ioctl on that
device. This will erase any data on that volume including IBM volume
labels, VTOCs etc. The ioctl may take a 'struct format_data *' or
'NULL' as an argument.
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