Hello All:

I am very new to Sybase. I was doing an install on Hp-UX
for Sybase 12.5

The Sybase Manual for installing Sybase Servers say to
do the following:

Enable asynchronous disk I/O.
This step is mandatory for HP users.

It tells you the steps.
a) From the SAM Kernel configuration menu, choose Drivers and set
the Pending State for asyncdisk to In.

(this parameter cannot be change) please explain how I am to do this.

b) From the Actions Menu rebuild the Kernel

c) At the Unix Prompt , execute the following statements as "root"
The user ID of the user who is booting Adaptive Server and Backup Server
must be in the owner of the /dev/async directory.

/etc/mknod /dev/async c 101 4
chmod 0660 /dev/async
chown sybase /dev/async

Please explain, but mainly how and where to make change to Pending State
for asyncdisk to IN.

thanks

dlj

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> Hello All:
>
> I am very new to Sybase. I was doing an install on Hp-UX
> for Sybase 12.5
>
> The Sybase Manual for installing Sybase Servers say to
> do the following:
>
> Enable asynchronous disk I/O.
> This step is mandatory for HP users.
>
> It tells you the steps.
> a) From the SAM Kernel configuration menu, choose Drivers and set
> the Pending State for asyncdisk to In.
>
> (this parameter cannot be change) please explain how I am to do this.
>
> b) From the Actions Menu rebuild the Kernel
>
> c) At the Unix Prompt , execute the following statements as "root"
> The user ID of the user who is booting Adaptive Server and Backup Server
> must be in the owner of the /dev/async directory.
>
> /etc/mknod /dev/async c 101 4
> chmod 0660 /dev/async
> chown sybase /dev/async
>
> Please explain, but mainly how and where to make change to Pending State
> for asyncdisk to IN.
>
> thanks
>
> dlj

If you have root permission on the HP-UX box, start sam by typing sam
on command line. Then go to the SAM Kernel configuration menu , then
click to the drivers, Search for asyncdisk. right click on that on
change to in to load this driver. For this you need to rebbot the box
for kernel rebuild.