Sybase cannot access raw device

From: Marek Grinberg (marek.grinberg@tele2.se)
Date: Wed Mar 09 2005 - 05:17:58 EST


Hello,

Following my pursuit of installing Sybase 12.5 in a Sun V240 running
Solaris 10, I stopped vold by issuing /etc/init.d/volmgt stop, and
restarted the Sybase install. It stopped further on while trying to
access the raw device:
basis_dsizecheck: attempt to open device '/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3' failed,
system error is: Read-only file system
Below is ls of the raw device:
# ls -l /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 mar 4 11:13 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3
-> ../../devices/pci@1e,600000/ide@d/sd@0,0:d,raw
# ls -l ../../devices/pci@1e,600000/ide@d/sd@0,0:d,raw
crw-r----- 1 sybase staff 32, 27 mar 4 13:15
../../devices/pci@1e,600000/ide@d/sd@0,0:d,raw

Why cannot Sybase access the raw device ?

Regards,

Marek Grinberg
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