Cannot install masterdb on raw partition

[spellbound1016]

I am attempting to install Sybase SQL 11.0.3 on Solaris and when I tell sybinit to intall the master device on a raw partition (/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s3 for instance) it gives this message:

"Device /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s3 must have read and write permissions."

I have made the partitions read-write, non-mountable (flag=wu) via the format command. What am I missing?

Much appreciation in advance for any help with this.

 

[sybaseguru]

Have you given the ownership of the raw partition to sybase?

DO   chown sybase:dba /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s3

and

DO   chmod 600 /dev/rdsk/c0t1dos3 

and then

DO   ls -l /dev/rdsk/c0t1dos3 

This should show something like

-rw-------    1 sybase   dba      268435456 Aug  2 01:00 /dev/rdsk/c0t1dos3

In the above "sybase" is the UNIX account for sybase group and "dba" is the group that sybase account belongs to. In your case you may have called them differently.

This should do the trick and good luck