Re: still can't initialize the f*!@# raw devices

Are you using logical volumes? If not, I believe there is something like the first 50 pages or so that you need to leave untouched for the device header. So each one of your chunks should use that as its offset. And, find out if the size of the chunk(s) you are specifying to Informix is the same as the actual size of the device. I've seen this once before on an Online engine because the sys. admin had used a the wrong block size for partitions, so instead of tru 2GB (2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes), I had 2,000,000,000 bytes! Good luck, Arun Knut Behrends wrote: > this seems to be a common problem for newbies but it has never been > answered in a satisfactorily manner: > > Why can't I initialize the raw devices on our sun ultrasparc running > solaris 2.6? > > It must be a really simple and stupid thing that I have done wrong. > Please don't tell me that the partitions have bad spots, this is > unlikely because the machine is new. Moreover, I have successfully > installed cooked devices on the same disks, in different partitions. > > When I try to bring IDS /UD into quiescent or online mode, the server > writes something about assert failures into the online log. > > Thanks for helping again, > > Knut Behrends > Chemnitz, Germany > > <snip>