This is on rhel 6.5: I read some about ASMFD, and decided to experiment with it. I pulled out the Oracle documentation, and went through the step by step instructions to upgrade ASMLIB to ASMFD. This is in the Oracle ASM Administrators Guide. I ran the dsset command as instructed (note, I have tried it both with and without quotes: asmcmd dsset ORCL:*,AFD:* Then shut down my sandbox cluster. I get to the point where I am attempting to enable the driver and this is what I get: [root@vmrh65node2 ~]# $ORACLE_HOME/bin/asmcmd afd_configure Connected to an idle instance. ASMCMD-9519: ASMLib is present with ASM disk string 'ORCL:*,AFD:*'; command requires default ASM disk string I unloaded the ASMLIB and tried again, and received the same error. Has anyone done this before, and can they point me to what I am doing wrong? Sent from my iPhone-- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l