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From: drake@ibmarc.uucp (Sam Drake/99999999)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: creating minidisks from standalone shell
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Date: 13 Jul 89 17:36:05 GMT
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Yep, that's how it works.  Remember, the RT is not only a multi-user
machine, but it can run multiple operating systems (AIX and others)
simultaneously.  So minidisks are not always for AIX'es use.  If you
create a minidisk via the AIX "minidisks" command, AIX will both define
the minidisk to the VRM and to AIX itself, and you can use it from AIX;
if you define it using the stand-alone VRM utilities AIX doesn't know
anything about it ... you might have intended the PICK operating system
to use that minidisk, for example, and AIX shouldn't know about it.

So the short answer is: always define AIX minidisks with the AIX "minidisks"
command.

I'm not an official anything, any mistakes are mine, and no one else's.

..Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center
Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center