Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle.server:42083 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!netnews.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!btnet-peer!btnet!baron.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!usenet.co.uk!newspeer.usenet.co.uk!post.usenet.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Alex Hudghton Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: HP-UX, Oracle and Raw partitions Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 13:49:22 +0000 Organization: Cap Gemini UK Plc Lines: 10 Message-ID: <36DD3DE2.2766F946@capgemini.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: hagen.cloud9.co.uk 920468964 2731 194.42.240.2 (3 Mar 1999 13:49:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenet.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Mar 1999 13:49:24 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en HP-UX 10.20 Oracle 7.3.4 Parallel Server with raw partition database. To use asynch i/o a device driver has to be created called /dev/async. Our sys adm says that on reboot this file is removed and replaced by the standard /dev/asyncdisk (which is no good to Oracle). Any solutions?? (apart from doing a mkdev on startup!) Alex