dasd-eckd.27f2cd <bus ID of the DASD>: The DASD is not operating in multipath mode
Explanation
The DASD channel path group could not be configured to use multipath mode.
This might negatively affect I/O performance on this DASD.
User response
Make sure that the DASD is working correctly, then try again to set it
online. If initialization still fails, reboot.