Re: Informix 5 and Solaris problem

In article <4elhkp$1fc@hopper.acm.org>, pradas@ACM.ORG says: > >I am temporarily administering an Informix 5 database on our >Sun 1000 Solaris 2.3 machine. Unfortunately when the machine went down >on Monday morning for its weekly reboot the database server didn't come back >up. The Problem is as follows: when I run tbinit, I get a "cannot >initialize shared memory" error. When I checked the drives that the >chunks are on using the format command, Solaris declared that they were or >"unknown type" while I know that they are Sun 1.05 disks. The partitioning >on the disks seems to be what we originally set up for Informix. >I also checked all f the shared memory parameters and they seem to be >ok. Truthfully, since Solaris is not identifying the disks properly I >don't know that this is an Informix problem. I am also unclear whether >telling Solaris to accept the disks as the correct types will write any >data onto the raw disk space when I save - my feeling is that it will not >but I cannot find this mentioned anywhere. > >I would appreciate any help in the matter - I have called Informix already >but I have since learned that my company let the maintenance agreement >lapse and it will take a couple of days to get through our red tape to >get the maintenance agreement back. > >Steven Prada >pradas@vrinet.com Are the disks you are having a problems with fitted into a drive array as I have had a Sun 2000 running Solaris 2.3 tell me that it had disks in it that were of an unknown type. The solution to that problem was to change out the disks as they were faulty. By the way, you can look up the error numbers in /usr/include/sys/errno.h and error number 6 is no such device, are you sure that your chunk path names are pointing to an existing device ? Kevin Page ups@technocom.com