I tried using raw logical volumes a while ago and had the same troubles. I
seem to remember finding a document which stated that raw disk access was
not supported on Linux.

...deon
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Have you looked at the A/NZ Tivoli User Group website?
http://www.tuganz.org

Deon George, IBM Tivoli Software Engineer, IBM Australia
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 03/05/2004
12:28:26 AM:

> I tried some more but still no luck
>
> tried as suggested with the following (same)result
>
> 05/02/2004 03:31:24   ANR2017I Administrator ADMIN issued command:
> DEFINE VOLUME
>  PM                    pool01 /dev/raw/raw1
> 05/02/2004 03:31:24   ANR9999D blkdisk.c(1276): ThreadId<31> Disk
> /dev/raw/raw1
>  PM                    is an unsupported file type - mode flags = 21A4.
>                        Callchain of previous message: 0x08793053
> outDiagf+0x203
>                        <- 0x08094459  OpenDisk+0x2f9 <- 0x08093e0d
> DiskServerT
>                        hread+0x2d <- 0x0809c53f  StartThread+0x8f
<-0x4005d020
>                        *UNKNOWN* <- 0x40139eca  *UNKNOWN* <-
> 05/02/2004 03:31:24   ANR2404E DEFINE VOLUME: Volume /dev/raw/raw1 is
not
>  PM                    available