The chunk '/.../chunk2' will not fit in the space specified

Hi there, I could not find anything in the Archive, so here's the problem ... We are on Solaris 2.6, Informix 9.21 and RAID 1+0. I'm trying to create a dbspace into .../chunk2 that is a link to raw device chunk2 -> /dev/rdsk/c1t0d2s0 No matter offset and size, I get Verifying physical disk space, please wait ... The chunk '.../chunk2' will not fit in the space specified. How all this started ( if it helps ). Last night I crashed the engine badly (still not sure how exactly). I even could not stop it with onmode -ky. It was dumping tons of shmem* and af* into /tmp. I finally had to reboot the box. When I tried to bring the engine online I got ----------- online.log --------------------------------- 19:42:44 Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Started. 19:42:44 Requested shared memory segment size rounded from 48000KB to48128KB Thu Oct 5 19:42:45 2000 19:42:45 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/opt/informix/ifmx_flx4/alarms/log_full.sh' 19:42:45 Booting Language <c> from module <> 19:42:45 Loading Module <CNULL> 19:42:45 Booting Language <builtin> from module <> 19:42:45 Loading Module <BUILTINNULL> 19:42:52 Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.UC1 ... 19:42:52 Assert Failed: chunk failed sanity check 19:42:52 Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.UC1 19:42:52 Who: Session(1, informix@flx4, 0, 218349592) Thread(23, main_loop(), d00c018, 1) File: rspartn.c Line: 7212 19:42:52 Results: Chunk 1 is being taken OFFLINE. 19:42:52 Action: Restore chunk from archive. 19:42:52 stack trace for pid 414 written to /tmp/af.3ff11fc 19:42:52 See Also: /tmp/af.3ff11fc 19:42:53 I/O error, Primary Chunk '/opt/informix/ifmx_flx4/dbsp/chunk2' -- Offline (sanity) 19:42:53 Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Stopped. 19:42:53 mt_shm_remove: WARNING: may not have removed all/correctsegments ------------ -- af.3ff11fc ------------ 19:42:52 mt_aio_wait(d05b688) 19:42:52 chunkio(3, 0xd6fb800, 0x2, 1, 0xd00b918, 53, 1) errno 5 AIOREQ *a 0d6de104: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ........ ........ 0d6de114: 00000000 00000000 0d05b800 0d0517a8 ........ ........ 0d6de124: 0000104d 41494f72 65710000 00000000 ...MAIOr eq...... 0d6de134: 07d10000 00000000 00000003 00000401 ........ ........ 0d6de144: 0000000b 00000002 00000001 00000000 ........ ........ 0d6de154: 00000001 0d05b6fc 00000000 00000000 ........ ........ 0d6de164: 00000005 00000001 00000000 00000000 ........ ........0d6de174: 00000000 .... 19:42:52 sane_chopen:bfphysio on primary chunk failedpage 0d6fb800: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ........ ........ 0d6fb810 * 19:42:52 19:42:52 Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.UC1 SoftwareSerial Number AAC#J912336 19:42:52 Assert Failed: chunk failed sanity check 19:42:52 Who: Session(1, informix@flx4, 0, 218349592) Thread(23, main_loop(), d00c018, 1) File: rspartn.c Line: 7212 19:42:52 Results: Chunk 1 is being taken OFFLINE. 19:42:52 Action: Restore chunk from archive. 19:42:52 Stack for thread: 23 main_loop() base: 0x0d6cf018 len: 66048 pc: 0x006da000 tos: 0x0d6ddb50 state: running vp: 1 0x006d9478 (oninit)afhandler(0x3ff11fc, 0x0, 0x1, 0xd03c018, 0x1, 0xd00c018) 0x006d8eb8 (oninit)afwarn_interface(0xd706f28, 0x9ff848, 0xd706f60, 0x99f68c, 0x1c2c, 0xd05b688) 0x0046ffb0 (oninit)sane_chopen(0x9ff1fc, 0x9ff848, 0x1c00, 0x4000000, 0xd6fb580, 0xd6fb580) 0x0046fb10 (oninit)chopen_util(0xffffffff, 0x1, 0xd00b930, 0x6e6b3200, 0x6f, 0xff0000) 0x000d51ec (oninit)initpzero(0x0, 0x0, 0xd00b918, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) 0x000d2400 (oninit)initseg (0x97c014, 0x8edfb0, 0xef529dc8, 0x91a485, 0x0, 0x0) 0x000cbb0c (oninit)main_loop(0xa13a74, 0x1, 0xa141e8, 0xa14a60, 0x1, 0xd00c0a8) 0x006baee0 (oninit)startup (0xa13a14, 0x8edc00, 0x0, 0x0, 0x4, 0xd4560b8) 0x000caef4 (oninit)main (0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0) 0x00000000 (*nosymtab*)0x0 19:42:52 See Also: /tmp/af.3ff11fc --------------------------------- Begin System Alarm Program Output --------------------------------- Assertion Failure Type: Warning Host Name: flx4 Database Server Name: ifmx_flx4 Time of failure: Thu Oct 5 19:42:53 EDT 2000 AF file: /tmp/af.3ff11fc Shared memory file: None System Blocking: OFF ------------------------------- End System Alarm Program Output ------------------------------- 19:42:53 sh /opt/informix/ids921/etc/evidence.sh 1 0 /tmp/af.3ff11fc 10xd00c018 23 0xd6c7238 1025 0 0 0 0 19:42:53 ------------------ End of assertion failure 0 ----------------- I reinitialized the engine (linking rootdbs to another device) and everything was back to normal :-) Except I still can not do anything to '.../chunk2'. We just started using raw devices and I have no idea how I can check what's going on with them. Thanks in advance ( a lot ) ! zarif