Everyone,

        I've just been working with my Unix sysadmin (I will be the ADSM
admin) to
set up the initial set of files on our ADSM server, and we got two errors
while formatting the large disk files to use for the backup pool.  Has
anyone seen this error, or can tell me where to find error explanations for
the 'dsmfmt' command?

** Commands that failed:

dsmfmt -m -data  /adsm/adsm1/backup_vol1.dsm  2845
dsmfmt -m -data  /adsm/adsm2/backup_vol2.dsm  3850

** Error Message on each:

"Error writing file <filename>; error number 27"

** Notes:
         (1) all other dsmfmt commands worked fine, including ones for a
1025 MB
database file, and for a 512 MB volume to use for an archive pool;
        (2) The AIX file systems were listed as having enough room for
these
files, although just barely; my given sizes would use up all but maybe 5 MB
on each disk

We are using AIX 4.x and ADSM v3.1 .

Are we running into the old 2 GB limit on ADSM volumes?  I thought that
version 3.1 got rid of that limitation.

Thanks in advance!

Tony
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Tony White, Research Scientist II          Tony.White AT gtri.gatech DOT edu
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