Gene,
Thanks. You are absolutely right on this. Is this documented anywhere? Or
did you have to call up support to find this out as Ben Bullock indicated
in his reply?

At 09:48 AM 4/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Look in /usr/lpp/adsmserv/bin.   There are 2 binaries called dsmfmt.42
>and dsmserv.42.   These are required to support >2GB volumes.   You
>should have dsmserv as a symlink to dsmserv.42 and dsmfmt a symlink to
>dsmfmt.42.   I had exactly this problem because I upgraded the ADSM
>system to AIX 4.2 *AFTER* installing ADSM.   If you use raw logical
>volumes (I do), you don't have to worry about dsmfmt.   If you decide to
>use JFS for anything >2GB, you must define the filesystem as "large
>file enabled".
>
>--
>Gene Mangum
>University of Michigan Medical Center
>
>
>On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, David Ong wrote:
>
>> Hello ADSMers,
>> I have been trying to define storage pool volumes to equal the physical
>> size of a 4.5gb SSA drive without much success. Has anyone been able to do
>> that in the AIX arena?
>>
>> Our environment is:
>> AIX 4.2.1
>> ADSM v2.1.5.18
>>
>> I defined a logical volume, adsmp1, to be 537 PPs in a 8mb/PP volume group.
>> I then defined that logical volume as a storage volume to ADSM as follows:
>> define vol spacemgpool /dev/radsmp1
>> The definition completes successfully, but when I query the storage pool or
>> query vols for the storage pool, it only shows as 200mb estimated capacity.
>> Does anybody know what's going on?
>>
>> lspv -l hdisk10
>> hdisk10:
>> LV NAME               LPs   PPs   DISTRIBUTION          MOUNT POINT
>> adsmp1                537   537   108..107..107..107..108N/A
>> <root@scaixr6> /home/root 139: lspv hdisk10
>> PHYSICAL VOLUME:    hdisk10                  VOLUME GROUP:     poolvg
>> PV IDENTIFIER:      000048298f149a09         VG IDENTIFIER
00000858c41af629
>> PV STATE:           active
>> STALE PARTITIONS:   0                        ALLOCATABLE:      yes
>> PP SIZE:            8 megabyte(s)            LOGICAL VOLUMES:  1
>> TOTAL PPs:          537 (4296 megabytes)     VG DESCRIPTORS:   1
>> FREE PPs:           0 (0 megabytes)
>> USED PPs:           537 (4296 megabytes)
>> FREE DISTRIBUTION:  00..00..00..00..00
>> USED DISTRIBUTION:  108..107..107..107..108
>>
>>
>> adsm> def vol spacemgpool /dev/radsmp1
>> ANR2206I Volume /dev/radsmp1 defined in storage pool SPACEMGPOOL (device
class
>> DISK).
>>
>> adsm> q vol stg=spa*
>>
>> Volume Name               Storage      Device      Estimated  %Util
Volume
>>                           Pool Name    Class Name   Capacity
Status
>>                                                         (MB)
>> ------------------------  -----------  ----------  ---------  -----
--------
>> /dev/radsmp1              SPACEMGPOOL  DISK            200.0    0.0
>> /dev/radsmp1              SPACEMGPOOL  DISK            200.0    0.0
On-Line
>>
>> adsm> q stg spac*
>>
>> Storage      Device       Estimated  %Util  %Migr  High   Low  Next
>> Pool Name    Class Name    Capacity                Mig%  Mig%  Storage
>>                                (MB)                            Pool
>> -----------  ----------  ----------  -----  -----  ----  ----  -----------
>> SPACEMGPOOL  DISK             200.0    0.0    0.0    90    70
>>
>
>

Have a nice day or whatever's left of it.

David Ong
National Semiconductor Corp.