Re: Online Initialization Problems on RAID Machine

In <3kpg51$fpu@sol.cms.uncwil.edu> rlong@sol.cms.uncwil.edu (Robbie Long) writes: >17:52:42 I/O error 'read': expect 2048 actual -1 addr 0x0 errno 6 retrys 0 >17:52:42 I/O error 'read': expect 2048 actual -1 addr 0x0 errno 6 retrys 1 >17:52:42 I/O error, Primary Chunk '/dev/rdsk/c21t5d1s1' -- Offline >17:52:42 I/O read() chunk 1, pagenum 0, pagecnt 1 --> errno = 6 >17:52:42 INFORMIX-OnLine Must ABORT> Root chunk down. >17:52:42 -- Online Aborting -- us=400024bc, pid=2241, uid=108 >17:52:42 INFORMIX-OnLine Stopped errno=6 is 'no such device or address', maybe the kernel isn't configured right. Try doing something like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdsk/c21t5d1s1 count=1000 bs=2k being VERY CAREFUL to get the disk name right (or you might wipe out a Unix partition :-) and see if that works. It and informix are doing about the same thing, but this takes informix out of the loop so you can bug NCR tech support if it fails, check your config, etc. Another thing to check is the permissions -- online 5.0 at least doesn't install quite right for our (DG) version of SVR4 -- namely the owner and mode of the devs needs to be reset at each reboot via the rc script. Setting it once only is no good, since /dev is rebuilt at reboot time. But that should generate a permission denied error, so probably not your problem here. -- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu "'Ere, he says he's not dead."