Re: Raw disk sections

Neil Truby <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote: :I've learnt a lesson over the weekend! :I'm running OnLine v7.13 on a Sun Sparc20; Solaris 2.4. I have a 4 :GByte disk which was split into two; the first slice was an Informix raw :slice; the second a file system. The Informix raw slice began at :cylinder 0. This seemed to cause problems on re-boot in that Solaris :couldn't read the partition table for the disk. When I reversed the :slicing so that the file system was first and the informix slice second, :it came up OK. :Is there are known problem with setting an informix slice at the :begining of a disk? Does everyone else but me know this? Is it a case :of RTFM? I'm sure this wasn't a problem at my last site, on NCRs. There was a discussion some days ago about having use an offset when using raw devices on Sun machines. You might be able to find these posts by searching on http://www.dejanews.com :Incidentally, when using format to view the disks, the disks have the :name of the Informix link on them; for example, instead of showing as :c0t1d0, a disk will show informix_1 (the link name I use). Does anyone :know why this should be so? :Thanks :Neil Truby :Chase Bank :Bournemouth, UK Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org