Decoding TNF Output...

[krobson3 at sca.csc.com]

Hi Folks,

I am doing some work with the I/O probe in TNF.  I wish to convert the device
back to a physical disk, so that I can map back to a Veritas Volume.  I have
output records such as (these where created with prex -k and tnfxtract):-

      130.747863    108.142412     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 41418762 block: 374880 size: 131072 buf: 0x7fd70c20 flags: 558361
      131.018102         0.270239     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 8388636 block: 374880 size: 131072 buf: 0x69dcf498 flags: 1289
      131.110536         0.092434     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 8388756 block: 19255864 size: 131072 buf: 0x862ba1a0 flags: 1289
      131.574874         0.464338     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 41418762 block: 375136 size: 40960 buf: 0x857fead8 flags: 558361
      131.655300         0.080426     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 8388636 block: 375136 size: 40960 buf: 0x891ff560 flags: 1289
      131.688286         0.032986     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 8388756 block: 19256120 size: 40960 buf: 0x6a47e258 flags: 1289
      131.784555         0.096269     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 41418762 block: 375296 size: 8192 buf: 0x82741408 flags: 558361
      131.818603         0.034048     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 8388636 block: 375296 size: 8192 buf: 0x82474ed0 flags: 1289
      131.845590         0.026987     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 8388756 block: 19256280 size: 8192 buf: 0x851be458 flags: 1289
      132.236165         0.390575     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 41418762 block: 375344 size: 131072 buf: 0x89259958 flags: 558361
      132.439259         0.203094     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 8388636 block: 375344 size: 131072 buf: 0x89370a88 flags: 1289
      132.497220         0.057961     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 8388756 block: 19256328 size: 131072 buf: 0x87ad0698 flags: 1289
      132.945563         0.448343     2     1 0x62a51d00   9 strategy
device: 41418762 block: 375600 size: 131072 buf: 0x863a5d88 flags: 558361


How to I map the device back to a major and minor number. I have seen brief
explanations of how to do this but nothing concrete. Most the methods I have
seen involve converting the number to hex and then taking the last three digits
and converting this back to a decimal number, which represents the minor number.

However as we have a number of major numbers associated with disk devices
(A1000's, A5200's and plain SCSI) I need to reliably convert this back to
separate major and minor numbers, so that I can ascertain which disk it refers
to and then use the offset to locate the slice and convert back to a veritas
volume.

Please could you provide me with a working method for this conversion, if
possible.

Thanks for your time and help.

Kind regards,


Ken Robson.