Hello David,

sounds like you have a i/o problem on chunk 6 ; replace disk and
restore..

onstat -d and look for chunk 6

it probably has flags PD; if so restore time...


do a

dd if=<chunk6> of=/dev/null

you probably get errno 5.

Superboer.


David Reed schreef:
> Hi
>
> On Informix 7.x and SCO OpenServer 5.x. I get the following message when
> trying to do a dbimport:
> *** create database
> 225 - Cannot create file for system catalog (systables).
> 102 - ISAM error: illegal argument to ISAM function.
>
> I am also not able to create a new database manually.
>
> In my online.log file, I get:
> 16:16:53 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 1 seconds.
> 16:42:25 I/O read chunk 6, pagenum 500302, pagecnt 1 --> errno = 5
> 16:42:28 I/O read chunk 6, pagenum 500302, pagecnt 1 --> errno = 5
>
>
> Looks like a Operating System / Hardware problem. Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> David
>
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