Raw devices on SUN

Hi list! I've Sun Solaris E-10 server with 256 SDRAM 2 x 9.1 gig HDD CD ROM Version 2.6 I want to create a raw device on this system. The system has been received already preformatted and UNIX installed. Can u advise me exactly how to create the raw device? How to create the links to the devices. I'll install Informix 7.31 UC2 and am confident on installation part. I'm stuck up on the job. Please advise me exact steps. TIA Mukund

Just one additional note. Solaris puts the VTOC (ie partition table) on the first 4K of the drive so you should not use any partition for an Informix chunk that starts on sector 0 UNLESS you use an offset of at least 4 when you define the chunk to onmonitor or onspaces. If you do not do this everything will seem to be OK (because Solaris caches the VTOC) until you next boot and Solaris can no longer find ANY partitions on that disk because Informix has overwritten the VTOC with the chunk's reserved pages. Solaris filesystems do not have this problem because mkfs knows to always skip 4K at the beginning of any partition. If the entire drive has not yet been used for filesystems and you are planning to use it all for Informix it is probably best to repartition the drive making the zero partition start after the VTOC (I usually skip the entire first cylinder and my sysadmin likes to skip two cylinders). Art S. Kagel "Shevkar, Mukund" wrote: > > Hi list! > > I've Sun Solaris E-10 server with > 256 SDRAM > 2 x 9.1 gig HDD > CD ROM > Version 2.6 > > I want to create a raw device on this system. The system has been received > already preformatted and UNIX installed. Can u advise me exactly how to > create the > raw device? > How to create the links to the devices. I'll install Informix 7.31 UC2 and > am confident > on installation part. > > I'm stuck up on the job. Please advise me exact steps. > > TIA > > Mukund