Re: Problem with raw devices on IRIX 6.2
I would check your release notes. I believe
that with ODS 7.22 on IRIX 6.2 a patch needs
to be installed to support KAIO with raw space.
I think you can use cooked space and set
the NOKAIO=1 environment variable.
Hope this helps
Frank Testa
Informix DBA
Mladen Jovanovski wrote:
>
> Hi Family,
>
> I have reached a strange problem performing a fresh installation
> on the following platform:
>
> Challenge LX with IRIX 6.2
> OnLine Dynamic Server 7.22
>
> I can't bring ODS online on raw devices. It doesn't matter if disk
> partitions are created as type xfs, efs or raw.
>
> Message in online.log is short and confusing:
>
> Tue Jan 13 09:02:44 1998
>
> 09:02:44 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/usr/informix/log_full.sh'
>
> 09:02:45 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off)
> 09:02:46 kaio.c, line 994, thread 11, proc id 720, kaiothread() ERROR.
> 09:02:46 PANIC: Attempting to bring system down>
> In the same time, I can bring it online on cooked files from filesystems
>
> mounted over the same devices !!!???
>
> Any idea?
>
> Mladen
>
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